Adding text to a compressed file without uncompressing

[Bob Elzer]

Concatenate the files

cat textile compressedfile > newfile

Or    cat textile compressedfile textile > newfile

But I don't think you'll be able to uncompress the new file afterwards.

You will then need to find a way to remove the lines to uncompress the
original file
 On Oct 31, 2013 1:40 AM, "Bryan O'Neal" <
Bryan.ONeal at theonealandassociates.com> wrote:

> So lets say I have a few hundred lines of test I need at the beginning
> or end of a big compressed text file. Say a 20GB uncompressed / 4GB
> compressed JSON or XML doc. Now lets say I have no desire to
> uncompressed this file and I have no desire to use interactive tools
> like vim. How could I achieve this?
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