From b5f1684628e292d44ca00921900402258422b227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zach DeCook <zachdecook@librem.one>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:05:32 -0400
Subject: make method to split file into multiple files based on first and last
 letters

---
 functions.sh | 6 ++++++
 makeDir.sh   | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 functions.sh
 create mode 100755 makeDir.sh

diff --git a/functions.sh b/functions.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..440219b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/functions.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+firstLetter(){
+	echo "$1"|grep -o '^.'
+}
+lastLetter(){
+	echo "$1"|grep -o '.$'
+}
diff --git a/makeDir.sh b/makeDir.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..aa9f782
--- /dev/null
+++ b/makeDir.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+dir="$1"
+rm $dir/*
+source functions.sh
+while read -r line; do
+	fl=$(firstLetter "$line")
+	ll=$(lastLetter "$line")
+	echo "$line" >> "$dir/$fl$ll"
+done
-- 
cgit 1.4.1