Shell Scripting HOWTO?

["George Lenzer" <eno home stratos net>]

I've been using Linux for about three years now and haven't really explored much beyond the usual bash commands:
mv, ls, mkdir, export, gzip, dd, cat, etc...

I really want to gain more knowledge on shell scripting.  (I used to be pretty good at DOS batch files in my "bad old days" :) )  Does anyone have any good resources that they are familiar with on the net?

Second question:  How would I take the output of the 'date' command and use it to name a file?  I am going to be setting up a backup routine using tar/gzip and would like to name the files with date info.  Would I create an environment variable that woudl hold the output of 'date' and the tell tar to name the file <evn var>.tar ?

Thanks,
George

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George H. Lenzer
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--He who dies with the most toys
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