[SOLVED] Create file using tar and ls commands

[Ejdaha]

Hi All
I have a file aa.txt

I want to tar it. I'm using
tar -cvf aa.tar aa.txt

There's only one .txt file in my folder. I want to ls my folder, get the file's name and create a tar with its name

ls *.txt
aa.txt

And I want not to give the tar file's name directly, but use the result of ls as tar file's name. It's name will be aa.txt.tar

Thank you very much

[bigtomrodney]

This is what springs to mind

tar -cvf "$(ls *.txt).tar" "$(ls *.txt)"

Though as soon as you have more than one file that's going to fail. It should give you some ideas though; Using $() to execute a command within a command is a very effective way of doing things quickly and simply. Using $() is considered the more modern and more correct equivalent to backticks ``

[Ejdaha]

Wow you're great. This is what I want
Thank you very much