tar exclude tag

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I have the following folder structure. myFolder and testFolder have same folders underneath it and I want to exclude only my1 from testFolder and not myFolder

"myFolder" which has -my1 -my2 -my3

"testFolder" which has -my1 -my2 -my3

I am trying to use exclude tag along with included folders while creating a tar file. This is what i have, but it does not seem to work.

tar -cvf base.tar "/sam/myFolder" "/sam/testFolder" --exclude="/sam/testFolder/my1"

I want to exclude my1 from testFolder and not myFolder. can you please suggest a possible solution.

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