UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Friends , I am new to unix . I am learning basics of unix and shell scripting.
Can you suggest me how to master unix and learn it in a correct way?

It will of great help.!!!

Thanks in advance

to join this forum was (is) a good start...

yes , it is a good start. But can you suggest some thing techincal?

First thing is what exactly do you want to do?
Unix world is vast. Do you already know basic commands?
Try $ man <command>Substitute <command> with ls cp mv cat mkdir stat (depending on your shell: sh bash ksh csh...)

Yes , i know the basic commands. I just wanted to know a correct way to master unix as you all are very much experinced and knowlegable persons. so please guide.

Personally, my work life has nothing to do with computers. I started like everyone else: echo 'Hello World!'.
I do not pretend 'I master Unix', and I really don't understand this statement, considering how vast Unix is.
I know what I know because one day, I needed to do things, I searched all over the net, bumped on these forums.
Since then, I read stuff here, stuff there and one day, a guy asked to do something, I replied to him with a bash script. And danmero (IIRC) replied just after me to the same guy with an one-liner awk. I was and thus, I became interested in awk scripting.
Not that it was easy (actually, it's not that hard either ) , but now I know my way with awk. Quite the same with shell scripting...
... well, that was a piece of my story, you can wake-up now
Knowledge comes with experience, which comes with trials & errors, I guess
Edit: found the "something" I talked about, and actually, danmero was faster than me :P