Help with Crontab script?

Hello, I'm rather new to linux and was wondering if someone could
assist me in writing a crontab?

I want to tar a file daily and send it to an email address.

I think I can figure out how to write a crontab to tar the file daily
but how do I write one to email it as an attachment daily? I haven't
quite figured out email in linux yet.

Thanks for any help.

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