tar + compress folder to tar.gz and removed the folder

Question

by the following way we tar the folder presto-server-0.210 to file

tar -czvf presto-server-archive.tar.gz presto-server-0.210

so after we tar the folder , folder still exists

is it possible to use the tar or other approach and replace the folder to tar file , so folder will removed and instead of folder we create the tar file

Answer 1

As noted in the comments, the proper way to do this is rm. For safety purposes, tar -jcvf folder.tar folder && rm -rf folder would only execute if the tar was successful - see "RETURN VALUE" section of the man page.