Append files to an Archive TAR file

The simplest way to append the files into existing archive is the “--append” or “-r” operation using tar command.

Syntax:

tar –rvf <Tar Archived File>  <filename>

OR

tar –append –file=< Tar Archived File>  <filename>

Example1:

Here we are adding filename “five” into archive file “test.tar”.

[root@mail01 jitendrakumar]# tar -rvf test.tar five

five

 [root@mail01 jitendrakumar]# tar -tvf test.tar

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 10:58 two

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 10:58 three

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 10:58 foure

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 10:58 one

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 10:59 five

Example2:

 Here we are adding filename “six” into archive file “test.tar”.

[root@mail01 jitendrakumar]# tar --append --file=test.tar six

[root@mail01 jitendrakumar]# tar -tvf test.tar

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 10:58 two

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 10:58 three

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 10:58 foure

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 10:58 one

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 10:59 five

-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2014-04-29 11:06 six