Adding text to a compressed file without uncompressing

Bob Elzer bob.elzer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 07:45:30 MST 2013


Damn spell checker

Concatenate the files

cat textfile compressedfile > newfile

Or    cat textfile compressedfile textfile > 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
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