Help with listing given files in a given directory path

Shell Programming and Scripting
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hello every one,
i'm a novice in the field of Linux, so please help me out with this problem.
a text file with the following syntax is given:

[/home/abcd/a/3]
file1
file2
file3
[/home/abcd/a/33]
file4
file5

a script is to be written to list all d file names and tar the files with the filename bckup-<date>-<time>.tar.
given files can be anywhere in d directory path, the code should search for the files, display them n then tar with the given name convention.
i've done it partially, please help:o

2

Can you put your requirement clearly ? that will help you to get a solution faster.

3

Input file syntax:
[directory path]
file1
file2
file3

[directory path2]
file4
file5

Script should read the above given file, prepare the list of files mentioned in it using the directory paths, and create a tar containing all the given files. The tar filename should have the following naming convention: bkup-<date>-<time>.tar

i've tried it in this way..the input file is assign3.txt, my script file has the following-

echo "list of files are:"
grep  "[[]*[]]" assign3.txt > 3.txt 
grep -o "/[a-zA-Z0-9]*]"  3.txt | tr ']' '/' | cut -d "/" -f 2 
echo $1
echo $2
a1=$1
b1=$2
tar -cvf bkup-`date +"<%m-%h-%y>"`-`date +"<%k-%M>"`.tar $a1 $b2

the last directory names in the given paths are stored in $1 and $2..
i've to use those directory names to tar..
i'm storing them in variables a1 and b1 and using them in tar.. but its not helping..

4

How does you assign3.txt file look like ? What are the contents ? Can you put a sample file here ? Also $1 and $2 will be empty what are you passing to the script ?

Thanks,