Gzip

Hey guys, hopefully someone can help me out with this fairly noobish question. I am writing a back script for work and have become stuck. I have a short script written to back up files however I was wondering if there was a way to get gzip to read a file, like a text file, and zip individually the folders written with it this document. Thanks.

Not like zip if remember correctly but you can loop through a list of files using a bash script

http://bash.cyberciti.biz/file-management/readline.php


just add
gzip -c $1 > backup.gz
gzip -c $1 >> backup.gz

-Michael