How do you add files to an existing compressed tar file?

[Erik Bixby]

For what I'm doing, I am going to stick with lots of little files. 
That should allow me to do things such as remove redundant copies...
-Erik

On 5/5/06, Michael Vanecek <mike at mjv.com> wrote:
> Oh der! Yeah - unzip it, append to it, the re-gzip it. Shuh - I always
> do things the hard way... You can use -u for updating changed files.
> Sheesh - after going thru this list of options:
> http://man.splitbrain.org/tar(1) I'm amazed at just how few of the
> features I use in the seemingly simple tar!
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
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> Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 May 2006, Erik Bixby wrote:
> >
> >> While I was waiting for a response, I figured I'd see if leaving off
> >> the compression helped.  That still seems to munge the files...  I'm
> >> preparing to go with plan "b;" just use lots of individual files.
> >
> > Uncompress the tarball first. Then do the appending (also without
> > compression).
> >
> >  Jeremy C. Reed
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