Pack several files

[chris10169]

I want to write a shell script (pack) to pack 3 files together. Like the winzip. And then to send it by email like attachments. Can anyone help me doing this shell script.
I will use this command like
pack document1 document1 document3 > example
So the command "pack" it will pack the 3 files into the example folder.
Please help me. I m stack.

[birdman]

Look at the man pages for tar. You want something like this:

tar -cvf packed.tar document1 document1 document3

and to untar them

tar -xvf packed.tar

If you read the man pages you can make sure you use it the way you want.

Regards

[chris10169]

Yeah that' s right but i need to write a shell script for this command.

[bigtomrodney]

You might want to check out The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide. Basically shell scripts start with a shabang

#!/bin/bash

To indicate the shell and that it is executable. After that it's just a shopping list of the commands you want to run. If you are having problems with any aspect of the script just ask