Re: Usage of -x

> I'm trying to exclude an entire directory sub-tree from a zip.  It's
> 400Mb and would be difficult to move out of the way.

> I've tried several variations:

> zip -b d: -r %1.zip %1 -x *.iso -x QNami_CDROM_Installers\* 

Is QNami_CDROM_Installers an immediate subdirectory of the current
one?  If not (likely, given the %1), you probably need the %1 in
front of it (and anything else between the %1 and itself).  Also,
just one -x, and Win32/DOS may have other oddities of which I'm
unaware.  Here's approximately what I do (would do) on Unix, except
using your %'s and not quoting the wildcards (usually required in
Unix shells):

	zip -r foo.zip %1 -x *.iso %1/*/QNami_CDROM_Installers/*
or
	zip -r foo.zip %1 -x *.iso */QNami_CDROM_Installers/*

The wildcard must match the eventual names that get put into the
zipfile, so no drive letters (which may be an issue with the %1),
and you need to cover any extra levels of subdirs down to your
target.  I believe Zip also allows both forward and backslashes,
but I'm not completely sure about that; what goes in the zipfile
is always forward slashes.

Greg