I was not aware of the -r option to combine_restarts, so I wasn't using it.
If my memory is correct combine_restarts used to remove the distributed files after a successful combine, but no longer does by default.
combine_restarts -h gives a list of the options, but until I looked at the code, I didn't use or know of the -r option.
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Add the -r description into the help function.