How to exclude a list of files and folders while using tar?

Asked Oct 20 '20 at 15:27

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I have a pathname of files and directories listed in a FILE named MyExclude.list.

Is it possible to exclude the list of files from being added to the tar archive?

asked Oct 20 '20 at 15:27

mck

do ```man tar``` and search for ```exclude``` - there's a whole family of exclude-s – vgersh99 Oct 20 '20 at 15:33
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`tar -czf backup.tar.gz -X /path/to/exclude.txt /path/to/backup` is what I needed – mck Oct 20 '20 at 16:29

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