Getting rsync to delete files from the *sender* after transfer

Question

I'm using rsync to move one directory to another. Is there some way to get rsync to incrementally delete a file from the sender after it has copied it to the reciever?

Solution

(answering my own question here :) )

The --remove-source-files will do this. :)

Comments

[shgnInc]

Thank you. By this option files just delete. How to delete directories with file deletion?

[sbussetti]

@shgnInc -- there's no option in rsync that will prune the empty directories for you. Use something like find /your/path -type d -empty -exec rm -rf {} \; after rsync is done to prune empty directories.