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You can run <br />
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for tarfile in *tar; &nbsp;do tar -xvf $tarfile; rm $tarfile; done<br />

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You can run

for tarfile in *tar;  do tar -xvf $tarfile; rm $tarfile; done


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That seems to work! &nbsp;I've seen references to using &amp;&amp;&nbsp;before a command to only run if previous command ended successfully. &nbsp;Would that be useful in this case?
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That seems to work!  I've seen references to using && before a command to only run if previous command ended successfully.  Would that be useful in this case?

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I am running this command on HP UNIX. &nbsp;I have 60 tar files that contain multiple files totaling about 2GB of data in each tar file. &nbsp;The following command is working fine to extract the files. &nbsp;The issue is I don't have enough disk space for all the .tar files and the .dat files it contains to exist at the same time. &nbsp;I want to extract data from FILE1.tar to FILE1A.dat, FILE1B.dat and then delete FILE1.tar before moving on to file FILE2.tar. &nbsp;Is there a way to automatically delete the .tar file once the data has been extracted to the .dat file? &nbsp; <br />
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for tarfile in *tar; &nbsp;do tar -xvf $tarfile; done
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I am running this command on HP UNIX.  I have 60 tar files that contain multiple files totaling about 2GB of data in each tar file.  The following command is working fine to extract the files.  The issue is I don't have enough disk space for all the .tar files and the .dat files it contains to exist at the same time.  I want to extract data from FILE1.tar to FILE1A.dat, FILE1B.dat and then delete FILE1.tar before moving on to file FILE2.tar.  Is there a way to automatically delete the .tar file once the data has been extracted to the .dat file?   

for tarfile in *tar;  do tar -xvf $tarfile; done

Delete Original TAR Files After UNTAR

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