Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat?

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• its-summertime 4 hours ago

      tar -c x | head -qc $((18*-512)) | gzip > x.tar.gz
      tar -c y | head -qc $((18*-512)) | gzip > y.tar.gz
      cat {x,y}.tar.gz | gzip -d | tar --list
  
  

  seems easier to just not have the EOF marker, if you need to append stuff later