Shell command to tar.gz directory excluding certain files/folders

by | Jul 1, 2022 | SSH/Batch Scripts | 0 comments

crop man crushing plastic bottle 
tar -czf archivefile.backup.tar.gz --exclude=public_html/blog --exclude=public_html/cgi-bin --exclude=public_html/email-marketing public_html

This will allow you to tar.gz a folder and not add the blog and other folders into it.