Excluding folder for untar

Excluding file or directory from extraction:

For Example :

We are going to ignore folder : temp_folder from our tar file : MY_FILE.tar.gz

$ tar -xzvf MY_FILE.tar.gz --exclude=home/myuser/folder/temp_folder   

Linux Getting Processor Information

How to check System Load in Linux?

In Linux you can see the  following:

System Load, Processor Usage, Memory Usage and Swap Usage

by using just a single command:

$ top

Following screen shot shows the command output: