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From: phil@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: How can I merge tar files?
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Date: 19 Oct 88 04:54:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!phil    Oct 18 23:54:00 1988


I would like to know if there is a program around that can merge two or more
tar files.

I tried "cat" but it seems mere concatenation of tar files is not good
enough for "tar".

I'm trying to avoid the extra /tmp space that would be taken up by
rebuilding the trees from the tar files I have.

-phil