Tar all files and exclude a folder?

How to tar all files and folders in current folder except one folder?

[sunroof]

How to tar all files, folders, subfolders... in current folder except one folder named 'test'?

something like: tar -cf all.tar * + exclude 'test'

Thanks

[lammert]

You first need to allow extended wildcard options, you can then exclude files or directories from the tar command line. I use the following commands to backup everything in /usr/src, except for the sub directories that start with "linux-2.6". You need to experiment a little to see how you have to construct the excluding wildcard options for your situation.

shopt -s extglob
/bin/tar -cf all.tar usr/src/!(linux-2.6*)

[OutdoorWebcams]

You might also try this:

tar -cf all.tar --exclude test *