Pls Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!

dear all,
i have a problem regarding tar.

i want to skip/exclude some folder when i give tar command.

suppose i want to make a tar file of abc folder which contains a,b,c folders and some files.

but i want to exclude folders a and b.
How i can do this ...?

i am using Linux 6.1

thanks

Are you talking PHP or bash here? I think this forum is PHP oriented even though the title is "General Help"?

man tar

tar --exclude file_or_dir_name

i can do this by

tar -czvf <tar file name> --exclude="<file_or_dir_name" <directory name which i want to tar>

thanx all for supporting

now i am try the same command for mutiple file or directory ...