Excluding Directory When Creating a .Tar.Gz File

Excluding directory when creating a .tar.gz file

Try removing the last / at the end of the directory path to exclude

tar -pczf MyBackup.tar.gz /home/user/public_html/ --exclude "/home/user/public_html/tmp" 

Shell command to tar directory excluding certain files/folders

You can have multiple exclude options for tar so

$ tar --exclude='./folder' --exclude='./upload/folder2' -zcvf /backup/filename.tgz .

etc will work. Make sure to put --exclude before the source and destination items.

Tar: create archive exclude directories except one

One way would be first excluding the mydir and then appending the my_archive_dir

tar cvf dir_archive.tar --exclude=dir_archive/mydir dir_archive
tar rvf dir_archive.tar dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir
gzip dir_archive.tar

Unfortunately appending doesn't work with zipped archives.

The --exclude option takes a pattern as argument, so if the names of the dirs to be excluded are similar, you can avoid them and still include the archive dir

tar cvfz dir_archive.tar.gz --exclude=dir_archive/mydir/exclude* dir_archive

It is also possible to create a file with names of all the files that you want included and give that list to tar with option -T or --files-from (or in similar fashion list the files to be excluded and give the list with option -X).

filelist.txt:
dir_archive
dir_archive/temp1
dir_archive/mydir
dir_archive/mydir/temp2
dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir
dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir/temp7

tar cvfz dir_archive.tar.gz --no-recursion --files-from filelist.txt

Exclude directory while using tar

You can't put the complete path into -C, if you want to tar the content of www. Do this instead:

tar -pczf domain.com.tar.gz -C /var/www/domain.com/public_html/www .

That way 'www' is the directory to be tarred but omited itself by including it into the -C path. You would than later extract all files of the 'www' directory.

In addtion to your edit (exclude) it must look like this:

tar --exclude=tmp -pczf domain.com.tar.gz -C /var/www/domain.com/public_html/www .

EDIT

According to your wishes, I found a funny but working solution. You exclude the dirs you want with exclude (see the man page of your tar, there are some with --no-recurse option, too) and you will have no ./ syntax at all:

ls /var/www/domain.com/public_html/www | xargs tar --exclude=tmp -C /var/www/domain.com/public_html/www -pczf domain.com.tar.gz

The way you give the filenames to the input, is the way tar is storing it. So it is even possible with -C to store the files without ./ but you need to pipe the list of ls with | xargs to tar.....

Exclude common subdirectories when creating a tarball

Instead of manually typing --exclude 'root/a/.CC' --exclude 'root/b/.CC' ... you can type $(find root -type d -name .CC -exec echo "--exclude \'{}\'" \;|xargs)

You can use whatever patterns find supports, or even use something like grep inbetween find and xargs.

Extract tar archive excluding a specific folder and its contents

You can use '--exclude' to omit a folder:

tar -xf archive.tar -C /home/user/target/folder" --exclude="folderC"

tar/gzip excluding certain files

You need to use the --exclude option:

tar -zc -f test.tar.gz --exclude='*.xdr' *

Exclude directories from tar with .tarignore file (#2)

So I was doing something wrong - incorrect order of the arguments. I also switched to --exclude-from per @Cyrus' comment and it seems to work fine.

tar -zcvf cur.tar.gz --exclude-from=.tarignore /home/ubuntu/dirname

And a sample from the .tarignore file:

# Ignore these paths
build/*
node_modules/*
.git/*

How do I tar a directory of files and folders without including the directory itself?

cd my_directory/ && tar -zcvf ../my_dir.tgz . && cd - 

should do the job in one line. It works well for hidden files as well. "*" doesn't expand hidden files by path name expansion at least in bash. Below is my experiment:

$ mkdir my_directory
$ touch my_directory/file1
$ touch my_directory/file2
$ touch my_directory/.hiddenfile1
$ touch my_directory/.hiddenfile2
$ cd my_directory/ && tar -zcvf ../my_dir.tgz . && cd ..
./
./file1
./file2
./.hiddenfile1
./.hiddenfile2
$ tar ztf my_dir.tgz
./
./file1
./file2
./.hiddenfile1
./.hiddenfile2

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