Deleting files after adding to tar archive

Solution 1:

With GNU tar, use the option --remove-files.

Solution 2:

I had a task - archive files and then remove into OS installed "tar" without GNU-options.

Method:

Use "xargs"

Suppose, we are have a directory with files.
Need move all files, over the week into tar and remove it.
I do one archive (arc.tar) and added files to it. (You can create new archive every try)

Solution:

find ./ -mtime +7 | xargs -I % sh -c 'tar -rf arc.tar % && rm -f %'

Solution 3:

For non GNU tar, you can use "-u" to proccess file per file in a loop

tar -cf archive.tar afile
for myfile in dir/*.ext
do
    tar -uf archive.tar $myfile && rm $myfile || echo "error tar -uf archive.tar $myfile"
done