Exclude Link Cats from listing

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats take a look there and it shows you how to pass the options through.

i am not looking to remove categorys.
in my links section, i have two categorys, members links, and articles we recomend. i have a links page that i want the members links to go on. i want the articles we recoment category to go in the sidebar. i tried to use the exclude but it wont work. any suggestions will be apreatiated. thanks.
(for example of what i am talking about, look at my site:
techmasses.net

Was this concluded? Is there a way to select which categories of links to display in the sidebar instead of all categories? I mean to list all the links from a specific category (not a list categories).

You could use wp_get_links for each category you want to show.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_get_links

Yes, that worked, thanks, though at first the links were listed without the *ul* tags.

Could you explain how to do that exactly ? Or post a simple example in which you have excluded a link category ?