tar excluding some files

tar -pczf MyFile.tar.gz /home/user/myDirectory/ --exclude=pattern

Example:

Excluding files whose names end in '.txt'.

tar -pczf MyFile.tar.gz /home/user/myDirectory/ --exclude='*.txt'

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tar excluding directories

tar -pczf MyFile.tar.gz /home/user/myDirectory/ --exclude="./directoryToExclude1" --exclude="./directoryToExclude2"

Note that there is no "/" at the end of the path to the directory to exclude!

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