Tar has a built in append feature so you can add files to the archive...
Take a look at it and see if you can get it to do what you are after?
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/tar1.html
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Bob Elzer <
bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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@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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