[Kile-devel] Automatically archive project?

[mander <ma...@fa...>]

I know that I can archive a project, including all the external files I 
have included, by right-clicking in the "Files and Projects" view and 
selecting "Archive".  Is there any way that I can do this using some 
kind of script or terminal command?  It would be better if I could tell 
Kile to automatically create an archive of the current project when I 
close Kile, or something similar.

A bit of context:  My thesis has many, many tables and images that I 
keep as separate files and call with a custom "InputTable" command to 
reduce confusion and keep the main file readable when I am writing or 
editing.  I like to run a script using cron that makes a .tar file of my 
entire thesis project and emails it to me at set intervals for backup.  
At the moment I am using a beginner-level bash script that feeds a list 
of files to tar, but it gets to be a bit of a pain to keep the list of 
files up to date.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!
Mander