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Managing File Attachments

In the following examples we are using a collection named characters.ds.

Adding high-capt-jack.txt as an attachment to “capt-jack”

   echo "Hi Capt. Jack, Hello World!" > high-capt-jack.txt
   dataset attach characters.ds capt-jack high-capt-jack.txt

List attachments for “capt-jack”

   dataset attachments characters.ds capt-jack

Detach all attachments for “capt-jack” (this will untar in your current directory)

   dataset detach characters.ds capt-jack

Prune high-capt-jack.txt from “capt-jack”

    dataset prune characters.ds capt-jack high-capt-jack.txt

Prune all attachments from “capt-jack”

   dataset prune capt-jack