[SOLVED] Writing a script that copy files to sub folder

yoczor · 12-07-2013, 04:33 PM

I need your help in writing a script. suppose i have a folder in a certain name and i want to copy all the files i have to sub-folder that starts with the first letter of the file. for instance, a file named alaska will be copied to folder A, the file named colorado will be cppied to folder C and so on. of course it will include files with lowercase and uppercase letters and a folder with one uppercase letter.

thanks.

Sydney · 12-08-2013, 03:32 AM

Look into using wild cards with the mv command. Look at the -f and -d conditionals in bash shell scripts. Last or maybe first look up how to read the contents of a directory into a bash shell script.