Dear admins,
Over in the "UNIX for Dummies" forum there is a subforum:
"I'm new to Unix. Which books should I read?"
The 2 Bash guides and the Linux guide on this page:
The Linux Documentation Project: Guides
Have been really useful to me.
Also (though the same info can be found by typing 'info coreutils') the following made lots of things about UNIX file manipulation easier:
GNU coreutils manual - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
yrs
michael