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Excluding files from tarball creation
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tar_exclude.sh
#!/bin/bash
# From: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/exclude-certain-files-when-creating-a-tarball-using-tar-command/
tar --exclude-vcs --exclude='nohup.out' -cjf ~/tmp/whatever.tar.bz2 ./*
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