Oooh both look excellent.  This is some of the best docs I've seen on tldp.

anthony

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:00 am, der.hans wrote:
> Am 04. Feb, 2004 schw=E4tzte tickticker so:
> > Most excellent, Thanks to those who responded.  The problem I had had,
> > and 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 switches betwixt a couple single quote marks.  I'll
> > assume the '<command>` can be used in this fashion for the most part wi=
th
> > most commands of this sort, much like 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
> > discuss shell scripting and tools like these? I'll bet everyone could
> > learn something about scripting from someone else.  Or is there a GREAT
> > online tutorial or 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