Ionel,

Our 'tar' is implemented via Busybox
--
pbx3 ~ # tar -h
BusyBox v1.19.4 (2015-08-25 17:52:46 CDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: tar -[cxtZzjahvO] [-X FILE] [-T FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE]...

Create, extract, or list files from a tar file

Operation:
        c       Create
        x       Extract
        t       List
        f       Name of TARFILE ('-' for stdin/out)
        C       Change to DIR before operation
        v       Verbose
        Z       (De)compress using compress
        z       (De)compress using gzip
        j       (De)compress using bzip2
        a       (De)compress using lzma
        O       Extract to stdout
        h       Follow symlinks
        exclude File to exclude
        X       File with names to exclude
        T       File with names to include
--

I have used the -X excludefile option before, add your excluded files one per 
line in "excludefile"

Lonnie


On Aug 26, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Ionel Chila <ionelch...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> is the --exclude folder function broken in the current Astlinux tar version?  
> It doesn't work for me ?
> 
> Many thanks
> Ionel Chila   
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