any way to append a file to compressed archive? [SOLVED]

gnychis · Last edited by gnychis on Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:05 am; edited 1 time in total

Hey,

Is there any way to append a file to a compressed archive like a .tar.bz2 without having to uncompress it, append it, then re-compress it?

Thanks!
George

lnxz · Guru Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 472 Location: Earth

--append ?

ecatmur · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:00 am Post subject:

No, not tar.bz2. The thing is, bzip2 compresses the tar archive as a single stream, so you can't add to the end of it.

If you want to be able to add files to a compressed archive, there are formats that allow this - 7zip, dar, zip, etc.
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gnychis · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject:

bahhh

thanks