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Old 02-13-2018, 02:38 AM   #1
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How to append files to existing txz archive


Hi, is it possible to append new files to an existing txz archive? How?
 
Old 02-13-2018, 02:39 PM   #2
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Hi, compressed archives can't be concatenated, so you'd need to uncompress the txz archive using unxz (assuming that xz was the compress program used), then use tar -A to append the new files and xz to compress the resulting archive.

"man tar" to know more
 
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