Exclude a directory from tar

July 24, 2009July 24, 2009 Christian Life

Damn tar is kinda weird .. usually, you specifiy excludes in the manner of –exclude=”/path/to/exclude”. But tar needs to do things differently.

tar -cvpf /xen-dom0.tar --exclude "/proc/*" --exclude "/sys/*" 
    --exclude "/dev/*" --exclude "/xen-dom0.tar" /

1 2	tar -cvpf /xen-dom0.tar --exclude "/proc/" --exclude "/sys/" --exclude "/dev/*" --exclude "/xen-dom0.tar" /