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Q: tar archive help

hey

how do you create a archive and add file to an existing archive.

i keep getting an error: dir/#: No such file or directory


currently using tar -cvfu name.tar files

files searching from a word document each line having different file extention.

Thanks in advance
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-c flag will create the archive again, use "--append" like :
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tar --append --file=arch.tar the-file-name
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