# Exercise: Sort the Downloads Folder

Exercise: Sort the Downloads Folder: Exercise: Sort the Downloads Folder.

Updated: November 10, 2026

1. [Exercise: Sort the Downloads Folder](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/exercise-bash-sort-the-downloads-folder) (Apprentice): Sort a messy Downloads folder of photos, songs, a lease, a resume and a year of receipts into folders with mkdir, mv and cp, wildcards and braces, without replacing a thing, and let a check script tell you what's done.

Source: https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/bash-in-depth/topics/exercise-bash-sort-the-downloads-folder