topic Re: add another file to tarred bzip2 file in Operating System - Linux

add another file to tarred bzip2 file

Ratzie — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:11:31 GMT

I have a tarred bzip2 file that I made with gnu tar
gtar -jcvf sometar.bz2 /somedir

How do I add additional files to the tarred bzip2 file?

Paul Cross_1 — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:24:47 GMT

bunzip the file, tar -r or tar -A to append the new file to the archive then re bzip the file.

Paul Cross_1 — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:28:47 GMT

example:
# bunzip2 archive.tar.bz2
# tar rf archive.tar newfile
# bzip2 archive.tar

K.C. Chan — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:10:08 GMT

you can do this in one step with tar rjf file.