Hi Ben, The --exclude option is position-sensitive, which means it applies to any arguments or options appearing after it in the command line. Therefore the correct tar invocation is:
tar zcvvfXT - excludes includes Please see 3.4.4 "Position-Sensitive Options"[1], for details. Regards, Sergey [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_22.html
