diff --git a/eos_wfe_scripts/delete_archive_file b/eos_wfe_scripts/delete_archive_file
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index ade642ea9ec8c0b481ebcb2152f7cd5d51f6db46..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/eos_wfe_scripts/delete_archive_file
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-export XrdSecPROTOCOL=sss
-export XrdSecSSSKT=/etc/cta/cta-cli.sss.keytab
-
-if test $# -ne 5; then
-  echo "Wrong number of command-line arguments"
-  echo "Usage: delete_archive_file wf_tag rusername rgroupname archive_file_id file_path"
-  exit -1
-fi
-
-WF_TAG="$1"
-RUSERNAME="$2"
-RGROUPNAME="$3"
-ARCHIVE_FILE_ID="$4"
-FILE_PATH="$5"
-
-LOG_FILE="/var/log/eos/wfe/${WF_TAG}.log"
-
-if test UNDEF = ${ARCHIVE_FILE_ID}; then
-  echo `date +%s` `date`" $0 Ignoring deletion of non-existent tape archive file: rusername=${RUSERNAME} rgroupname=${RGROUPNAME} archiveFileId=${ARCHIVE_FILE_ID} path=${FILE_PATH}" >> ${LOG_FILE}
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-if RESULT=`2>&1 /usr/bin/cta deletearchive --user ${RUSERNAME} --group ${RGROUPNAME} --id ${ARCHIVE_FILE_ID}`; then
-  echo `date +%s` `date`" $0 Deleted tape archive file: rusername=${RUSERNAME} rgroupname=${RGROUPNAME} archiveFileId=${ARCHIVE_FILE_ID} path=${FILE_PATH}" >> ${LOG_FILE}
-  exit 0
-else
-  echo `date +%s` `date`" $0 Failed to delete tape archive file: error=${RESULT} rusername=${RUSERNAME} rgroupname=${RGROUPNAME} archiveFileId=${ARCHIVE_FILE_ID} path=${FILE_PATH}" >> ${LOG_FILE}
-  exit 1
-fi