how to tar file with exclude a directory
 

[ --exclude FILE ] [ -X, --exclude-from FILE


I tar to tar some directory and exclude a directory , I tried tar -cvf /tmp/test.gz ./* --exclude ./temp but not work , and the parameter --exclude seems exclude file only not directory , can advise what can i do ? thx

Notice that the man page specifies that the argument to --exclude is a "PATTERN" not at path.

So what happens if you use '--exclude temp' instead of '--exclude ./temp'?

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