I know this is a silly question, but since I am trying so hard to learn linux by myself, I need some help from you fellows.

I found this task on the internet and I am trying to solve it but I don't understand exactly how can I use makefiles in linux and how can I create them.

Let's suppose my print working directory is /home/george/Documents

I want to create a makefile which does the following:

1. Displays a message as follows "hello work, today is Sun". Sun comes from Sunday. So I must use date command in this make file to display just first three letters.



2. compress /etc/hosts in /tmp using gzip (probably here should be something like

   
   
   

   gzip -c SOURCE DESTINATION # ?? 
   
   

Cheers