<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <TITLE>-sdel (Delete files after including to archive) switch</TITLE> <LINK href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>-sdel (Delete files after compression) switch</H1> <H4>Syntax</H4> <PRE class="syntax"> -sdel </PRE> <P> If -sdel switch is specified, 7-Zip deletes files after including to archive. So it works like moving files to archive.</P> 7-Zip deletes files at the end of operation and only if archive was successfully created.</P> <H4>Examples</H4> <PRE class="example"> 7z a a.7z *.txt -sdel </PRE> <P>moves <SPAN class="filename">txt</SPAN> files from disk's directory to a.7z archive.</P> <H4>Commands that can be used with this switch</H4> <P> <A href="../commands/add.htm">a (Add)</A> </P> </BODY> </HTML>