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 Excluding Some Files
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    To avoid operating on files whose names match a particular pattern,
 use the `--exclude=PATTERN' or `--exclude-from=FILE-OF-PATTERNS' (`-X
 FILE-OF-PATTERNS') options.
 
 `--exclude=PATTERN'
      Causes `tar' to ignore files that match the PATTERN.
 
    The `--exclude=PATTERN' option prevents any file or member whose name
 matches the shell wildcard (PATTERN) from being operated on.  For
 example, to create an archive with all the contents of the directory
 `src' except for files whose names end in `.o', use the command `tar
 -cf src.tar --exclude='*.o' src'.
 
    You may give multiple `--exclude' options.
 
 `--exclude-from=FILE'
 `-X FILE'
      Causes `tar' to ignore files that match the patterns listed in
      FILE.
 
    Use the `--exclude-from=FILE-OF-PATTERNS' option to read a list of
 patterns, one per line, from FILE; `tar' will ignore files matching
 those patterns.  Thus if `tar' is called as `tar -c -X foo .' and the
 file `foo' contains a single line `*.o', no files whose names end in
 `.o' will be added to the archive.
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