Am 04. Feb, 2004 schw=E4tzte tickticker so:

> Most excellent, Thanks to those who responded.  The problem I had had, an=
d you
> all pointed it out in a round about way, was to call the date command in =
the
> cp command.  I see it is now simply called in the `` marks, with the swit=
ches
> betwixt a couple single quote marks.  I'll assume the '<command>` can be =
used
> in this fashion for the most part with most commands of this sort, much l=
ike
> the | or piping of commands is.

The backticks are irrelevant to the command you're running because it's
handled by the shell before the command gets called.

> Pardon my mnemonics out loud.
>
> Yes, I do need to work on this, are there any PLUG meetings that will dis=
cuss
> shell scripting and tools like these? I'll bet everyone could learn somet=
hing
> about scripting from someone else.  Or is there a GREAT online tutorial o=
r
> resource for this that I missed.... scratch that, I know there is, anyone
> know where it is?

There used to be a bash programming guide by a guy in Tucson. Look at
www.tldp.org.

This looks like it:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

There's also:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

ciao,

der.hans
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