Re: Usage of -x

Hmmm.  I thought that was one of my permutations, but it seems to be
working.  Thanks.

--- Greg Roelofs <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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
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