Good Script Repository Somewhere? Help with Shell Scripting.

[RD Egeland <rde lists oxsyn com>]

I'm just learning how to write shell scripts, and I'd like to find example 
scripts to look at.  The BASH howto and Advanced BASH howto isn't too great 
in this respect.

The immediate task I'm trying to do is extract a date into a standardized 
format which I can then somehow sort.  The text I need to extract the date 
from looks like:

Bid End time (eBay)       : Mon Feb  3 00:32:48 2003 (GMT)

Any tips?

Ryan