Deleting files after adding to tar archive

Question

Can GNU tar add many files to an archive, deleting each one as it is added?

This is useful when there is not enough disk space to hold both the entire tar archive and th

Answer 1

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