[Linux] - tar and exclude certain files or folder

We have below table structure and we want to exclude certain folder(s) before we tar the file. Follow these steps:

• demo
• contents
• videos
• folder_a
• folder_b
• folder_c
• file_a.php
• file_b.php

Let say we want to exclude contents and videos folder. So the command would be like this:

tar -czf demo.tar.gz demo/ --exclude='videos' --exclude='contents'