Re: help in linux shell script in copying files

From: Kirk Strauser (kirk@strauser.com)
Date: 01/30/03 

From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:30:06 GMT

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At 2003-01-29T22:51:43Z, Gerhard W. Gruber <sparhawk@gmx.at> writes:

> cd /temp; ls | while read f; do FIRST=`echo "$f" | cut -c1 | tr "[a-z]"
> "[A-Z]"`: mv "$f" "/data/$FIRST/$f"; done

Be careful! He'll lose homework points if any filenames start with [^a-zA-Z].
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Kirk Strauser
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