With bsdtar "--exclude", how to only exclude subdirectories?

In GNU tar (i.e. gtar), the --exclude option with a glob only matches the subdirectories, but not the directory itself. For example, --exclude test-tar/a/b/* would exclude anything inside of b, but not b itself. However, bsdtar is excluding the directory itself as well. My question is how do I make bsdtar act the same as GNU in this regard? Here is an example script the demonstrates the problem: #!/usr/bin/env bash echo -e "\nGiven an archive that looks like this:" bsdtar -tf test.tgz echo -e "\nExtract the archive excluding test-tar/a/b/* using gtar" rm -rf test-tar gtar -xzf test.tgz --exclude 'test-tar/a/b/*' file test-tar/a/b file test-tar/a/b/B.txt echo -e "\nExtract the archive excluding test-tar/a/b/* using bsdtar" rm -rf test-tar bsdtar -xzf test.tgz --exclude 'test-tar/a/b/*' file test-tar/a/b file test-tar/a/b/B.txt This outputs: Given an archive that looks like this: test-tar/ test-tar/a/ test-tar/a/A.txt test-tar/a/b/ test-tar/a/b/B.txt Extract the archive excluding test-tar/a/b/* using gtar test-tar/a/b: directory test-tar/a/b/B.txt: cannot open `test-tar/a/b/B.txt' (No such file or directory) Extract the archive excluding test-tar/a/b/* using bsdtar test-tar/a/b: cannot open `test-tar/a/b' (No such file or directory) test-tar/a/b/B.txt: cannot open `test-tar/a/b/B.txt' (No such file or directory) My versions are tar (GNU tar) 1.29 and bsdtar 3.3.2.