Writing a script that copy files to sub folder

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I need your help in writing a script(ubuntu-bash). suppose i have a folder in a certain name and i want to copy all the files in the folder to a 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.

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– span, Commented Dec 7, 2013 at 22:52

janos · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-07 22:33:57Z

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I hope you can build on this example:

for f in file1 file2; do
    dir=$(echo ${f:0:1} | tr a-z A-Z)
    mkdir -p $dir
    cp -v "$f" $dir
done

answered Dec 7, 2013 at 22:33

janos

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