gzipping up a set of directories and creating a tar compressed file

Question

My bash fu is not what it should be.

I want to create a little batch script which will copy a list of directories into a new zip file.

There are (at least) t

Answer 1

You can export a variable like DIRECTORIES="DIR1 DIR2 DIR3 ...." And in the script you need to use the variable like tar czvf $DIRECTORIES