Hi,

I am using GNU bash ,version 4.2.8(1) - release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) ubuntu 11.04

I am trying to create a tar file for a directory.
suppose the name of the directory is fruits..
mytar.sh
#!/bin/sh
case $0 in
*listtar) TARGS="-tvf $1" ;;
*maketar) TARGS="-cvf $1.tar $1" ;;
esac
tar $TARGS

after this created two links

$ ln -s mytar.sh listtar
$ ln -s mytar.sh maketar

now when i am doing :
$ ./maketar fruits

I am getting this error.

./mytar.sh : 4 : Syntax error : Unterminated quoted string....

Why do you have "#!/bin/sh" as line one instead of "#!/bin/bash" ?

Also "listtar) TARGS="-tvf $1";;
should be "listtar) TARGS="-tvf $1.tar";; ...no?

Thanx Kitaman....that resolved the issue