#hist.sh, a scripting program for systems programming and unix/linux fundamentals, by Brandon Kennedy
#program accepts a directory pathname and outputs to the file "rawdata"
touch rawdata
chmod 660 rawdata
echo -n "Please enter the the path to a directory:  "
read directory
echo ""

echo "Directory: $directory" > rawdata
cd $directory
echo "" >> rawdata

echo -n "Total Files: " >> rawdata
echo $(ls | wc -w) >> rawdata
echo "" >> rawdata

echo -n "(a-g): " >> rawdata
ls -d [a-gA-G]* | wc -w >> rawdata
echo "" >> rawdata

echo -n "(h-m): " >> rawdata
ls -d [h-mH-M]* | wc -w >> rawdata
echo "" >> rawdata

echo -n "(n-s): " >> rawdata
ls -d [n-sN-S]* | wc -w >> rawdata
echo "" >> rawdata

echo -n "(t-z): " >> rawdata
ls -d [t-zT-Z]* | wc -w >> rawdata
echo "" >> rawdata
echo "" >> rawdata