Linux tar command with exclude

Question

I want to create tar file of a folder but this folder contains some tar.gz files like abc.tar.gz, pqr.tar.gz which i don't want to include so how to exclude this files while making the tar

Answer 1

 --exclude=PATTERN
      When performing operations, `tar' will skip files that match
      PATTERN.

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--exclude="*.tar.gz"

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 --exclude-from=FILE
 -X FILE
      Similar to --exclude, except `tar' will use the list of patterns
      in the file FILE.

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--exclude-from="File.txt"

File.txt

abc.tar.gz
prq.tar.gz

Answer 2

What about something like:

find ./ -name '*.tar.gz' > /tmp/excludefiles
tar -czvf newarchive.tar.gz -X /tmp/excludefiles foldertotar/

I haven't test it. It's only idea how to solve it.

EDITED:

It's even simpler:

tar -czvf newarchivename.tar.gz --exclude '*.tar.gz' foldertobetarred/

This solution is tested and works.

Answer 3

You can use the --exclude functionality in tar

@tmp$ ls test
abc.tar.gz  adfd  asdfd  dfcvdf  dfdf  efdfefef  pqr.tar.gz  test
@tmp$ tar -cvzf test.tar.gz test --exclude="*.tar.gz"
test/
test/adfd
test/dfcvdf
test/test/
test/test/abcd
test/efdfefef
test/dfdf
test/asdfd