mowgli wrote:
> Firstly, if I use continue to redisplay the list, I
> get an error which says continue can only be used in while and until
> loops.

That's correct. <http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashref.html#IDX72>
From your code, I suspect that what you actually want is a for loop
<http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashref.html#IDX31>:
for SERVER in $SERVER1 $SERVER2 $SERVER3
do
echo Now uploading files up files to $SERVER
scp $FILESPATH user@$SERVER:~/mybackup &>> $LOGFILE
# for loop will "continue" for you
done

> Sorry that me being a newbie, it's not very clear to me yet when to
> use select and when to use case.

Don't apologize for being a newbie, everyone had to start somewhere. But you
might want to pick up a book at you local library on basic programming.

'case' and 'select' are both used for completely different things.
case: <http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashref.html#IDX37>
select: <http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashref.html#IDX40>

> Also what needs to be done if my username on one server is different
> than on others? And also the ssh port for one server is different?

You will have to use _different_ variables. Have a look at arrays
<http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashref.html#SEC81>, which could simplify
your code a bit.

HTH.


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