On Oct 21, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Pintér Tibor wrote:
USER1="roland" USER2="dany" USER3="kevin"
cp -r /opt/$USER1/test /backup/$USER1 cp -r /opt/$USER2/test /backup/$USER2
$ for user in one two three four; do echo $user; done one two three four
or if the list of users is in a file, one per line
$ cat file roland dany kevin $ $ cat file | while read name do something $name done
Tony