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Jason M Potter answered on October 27, 2022 Popularity 6/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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## Use --remove-files NOT --delete to erase the source files
tar -cf tarball-name.tar /path/to/save --remove-files
## Usee && to only process rmdir if tar exits without errors
tar -cf tarball-name.tar /path/to/save --remove-files && rmdir /path/to/save

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