How to exclude some files from tar archive while extracting it?

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Issue

  • How to exclude some files from tar archive while extracting it.
  • log.tar.bz2 contains /var/log, how to exclude /var/log/lastlog while extracting it?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • tar-1.23-7.el6

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