Exclude Certain Files When Creating A Tarball Using Tar Command

Sample:

tar -zcvf /tmp/mybackup.tar.gz –exclude=’abc’ –exclude=’xyz’ /home/me

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/exclude-certain-files-when-creating-a-tarball-using-tar-command/

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