Help with tar files

[yekaterina]

Hi,

Is there any way to add a file to *.tar.gz file without open it?

Thank you.

 

[Hemo]

Check the help or man pages for your version. Some (SCO) don't allow this. GNU tar does allow this - but only on uncompressed archives. This means you need to gunzip the tar file first, then append to it, then gzip it again.

tar --help

and then look at the -r (--append) and -u (--update) options.

Your command might look like this:

tar -rvf oldfile.tar ./file.to.add

 

[comtec17]

Hemo is correct. You will have to gunzip the compressed file first. The man pages state that you can us the -r option but the file must be of the same Block Size.

 

[yekaterina]

Thank you very much. It worked!