I made this simple script to copy a file recursively to many sub-directories. Here I am showing the problem for 3 sub-directories. I have 3 sub-directories and 2 files in a directory as follows

0.003/  0.007/  0.015/  program.cpp  driver.sh*

I want to copy program.cpp to all these sub-directories using myscript.sh shown below:

    #!/bin/bash

    mydir=`pwd`



    for i in `ls -la $mydir | grep "[0-9]$" | awk '{print $NF}'`

    do

        if [ -e $mydir/$1 ]

        then

            echo "cp -i $1 $i/"

        else

            echo "File "$1" not found in current directory"

        fi

    done

I have put the cp inside echo to test the code. The output is strange,

cp -i program.cpp 32/

cp -i program.cpp 0.003/

cp -i program.cpp 0.007/

cp -i program.cpp 0.015/

The output of ls -la

total 32K

drwxr-xr-x. 5 gulu workg 4.0K Nov 29  2013 .

drwxr-xr-x. 7 gulu workg 4.0K Nov 29  2013 ..

drwxr-xr-x. 2 gulu workg 4.0K Nov 26 19:09 0.003

drwxr-xr-x. 2 gulu workg 4.0K Nov 26 19:09 0.007

drwxr-xr-x. 2 gulu workg 4.0K Nov 26 19:09 0.015

-rw-r--r--. 1 gulu workg 4.2K Nov 29  2013 program.cpp

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 gulu workg  982 Nov 26 08:22 driver.sh

The output of ls -la $mydir | grep "[0-9]$" | awk '{print $NF}'

0.003

0.007

0.015

There are only three values in i then how is it producing four output? Anyway I have solved the problem with an additional condition [ -d $mydir/$i ]. But my question is how the script is producing the first line cp -i driver.sh 32/?