Bash shell script to glob files in several directories, add to an archive and remove original file

I am trying to write a bash 开发者_StackOverflowscript that does the following:

1. Enumerates through list of files in a directory, that match a specified pattern
2. Creates a tar file containing the matching files
3. Removes (i.e. deletes) the matched files from their source directories

To keep things simple, I intend to use a hard coded list of directories and file patterns

This is what I have come up with so far:

#!/bin/bash

filenames[0]='/home/user1/*.foo'
filenames[1]='/some/otherpath/*.fbar'

for f in ${filenames[@]}
   do
      echo "$f"
done

However, I am unusure on how to proceed from this point onward. Specifically, I need help on:

1. How to glob the files matching the pattern $f
2. How to add the ENTIRE list of matching files (i.e. from all directories) to a tar file in one go

Regarding deleting the files, I am thinking of simply iterating through the ENTIRE list obtained in step 2 above, and 'rm' the actual file - is there a better/quicker/more elegant way?

PS:

I am running this on Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS

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If you want to use a loop because you have many directories, you can use the -r option to append to the tar file. You can also use --remove-files to remove files after adding them to the archive.

filenames[0]='/home/user1/*.foo'
filenames[1]='/some/otherpath/*.fbar'

for f in "${filenames[@]}"
do
   tar -rvf --remove-files foo.tar $f
done

If you don't have the --remove-files option, use rm $f after the tar command.

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tar(1) supports an --remove-files option that will remove the files after adding them to the archive.

Depending upon what you're trying to do with your shell globs, you might be able to ignore doing all that extra work there, too. Try this:

tar cf /dir/archive.tar --remove-files /home/user1/*.foo /some/otherpath/*.fbar