May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Concatenating two archives
The -A option will merge multiple tar archives.
Given two tarballs, file1.tar and file2.tar, the following command will merge the contents of file2.tar into file1.tar:
$ tar -Af file1.tar file2.tar
Verify it by listing the contents:
$ tar -tvf file1.tar