how use tar and extract everything except certain files? [closed]

Try using the following command

tar -xvzf /path/to/tarfile --exclude='file dont want to extract'

linux bash tar

You can use, as commented by Gryphius, the --exclude option to GNU tar.

You could also post-process the tar archive with tardy.

tardy enables you to do other useful transformations (e.g. prefixing the archived file paths, changing user or group name, etc...).

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