God damned tar exclude file and folders

Working example given below;

tar --exclude=tomcat-9.0.46/webapps/api.war --exclude=tomcat-9.0.46/webapps/api --exclude=tomcat-9.0.46/temp --exclude=tomcat-9.0.46/bin/logs --exclude=tomcat-9.0.46/logs -cvzf apigw.tar.gz tomcat-9.0.46