I have 100 servers which need a new backup server added to a text file, and then the backup agent restarted.

[Michael Abbott]

Ove Pettersen <ove.pettersen at smartcall.no> wrote:
> for server in "server1 server2 server3 .... server100"; do

Two comments:

1.  Leave out the quotes(!)

2.  Either iterate as
   for server in $(seq -fserver%g 100); do
or, probably better
   for server in $(cat server-list); do