Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/ksh

while read names files ; do
   echo files = $files
   echo names = $names
   tar -czf ${names}.tgz ${files}
   mv ${names}.tgz /var/backups/${names}.tgz
done < backup_files

bash-3.00$
bash-3.00$ cat inputfile
mysql_config /etc/mysql
apache2_config /etc/apache2
bash-3.00$ cat script
#! /usr/local/bin/bash
exec < inputfile
while read file dir ; do
       echo dir = $dir
       echo file = $file
done
bash-3.00$ chmod u+x script
bash-3.00$ ./script
dir = /etc/mysql
file = mysql_config
dir = /etc/apache2
file = apache2_config
bash-3.00$

#!/bin/bash

exec < /etc/backups/backup_files
while read file_name files ; do
tar -czf $file_name.tgz $files 2>&1 | grep -v "Removing leading"
mv $file_name.tgz /var/backups/$file_name.tgz
done

exec < /etc/backups/backup_databases
while read file_name user pass database ; do
mysqldump --add-drop-table -c -e -u $user -p$pass $database > $file_name.sql
tar -czf $file_name.tgz $file_name.sql
rm $file_name.sql
mv $file_name.tgz /var/backups/$file_name.tgz
done