Applescript change directory terminal

I have the following terminal command that I want to automate using applescript. After cd to the folder that holds the .pdf files. This code looks at the first letter of the file name and based on that sorts the files into the alphabet folder corresponding to the first letter of the file.

do script "cd ~/desktop/test1; for x in ls -1 | sed -e 's/^\(.\).*/\1/' | sort -u; do mv -i ${x}?* $x done"

Not sure how to get this to work. It will not run in applescript. Any insight is appreciated.

Thanks

Is there any particular reason that you're doing this through an AppleScript and not through a shell script? If this is all you're doing, just stick that command in a shell script and voila.

vansmith said:

Is there any particular reason that you're doing this through an AppleScript and not through a shell script? If this is all you're doing, just stick that command in a shell script and voila.

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Not sure how to do shell scripts. Is it possible to show me so I can get started and try to learn.

Thanks

A shell script is nothing more than (at least in their basic form) a list of commands to execute. Here's (outdated link removed) a starter reference for you.