How to exclude a dir. with tar

[Steven W. Orr]

On Thursday, Feb 1st 2007 at 10:14 -0500, quoth linuxmaillists at charter.net:

=>On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:49, Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>> =>Delete the directory or move it then do your tar ball.
=>>
=>> What a horrible answer!
=>
=>There is nothing horrible about my answer.  It did not tell 
=>him what he wanted to know about excluding but it did tell 
=>him how to accomplish his objective, because he does not 
=>want to save that tmp directory anyway.

Sorry, I disagree. Please don't take this personally, but when I post to a 
list with potentially trillions of readers, I try to answer the question 
that's asked. If someone can't figure out how to put on a raincoat, I 
don't tell him to stay in out of the rain. Would your answer have been 
different if instead of "tmp" he had his directory named 
"important_stuff"?

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