Question

I have a given file. I need to create a folder that has 27 files. The first file contains alphabetically ordered and unique words from the given file that start with a, the second that starts with b, and so on.

The 27th file contains the words that start with other characters. I managed to do my dictionary using awk, but i have to do it in bat and it’s causing me a lot of problems.

Answer 1

Note that you had NOT requested us to explain the Batch file, right? 🙂

@echo off
md folder
for /F "delims=" %%a in (theFile.txt) do (
   for %%b in (%%a) do (
      set word[%%b]=1
   )
)
for %%a in (A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do (
   (for /F "tokens=2 delims=[]" %%b in ('set word[%%a') do (
       echo %%b
       set word[%%b]=
   )) > folder\%%a.txt 2>NUL
)
(for /F "tokens=2 delims=[]" %%b in ('set word[') do (
   echo %%b
   set word[%%b]=
)) > folder\other.txt