zip to exclude all .svn folders

Question

trying to exclude all .svn folders in the zipped subfolders

zip -urq bebe.zip * -x .svn

doesn't work...

[Unix zip directory but excluded specific subdirectories](https://superuser.com/q/312301/173513), [how to exclude directories and file zipping a directory?](https://askubuntu.com/q/371579), [How to exclude a directory when zipping files](https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/219101/56041), etc. — , Jan 01 '18 at 01:05

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '10 at 13:40

3

Try zip -urq bebe.zip * -x '*/.svn'

answered May 27 '10 at 13:40

Mo.

2,236
17
9

4

no, sorry. but this one worked `zip -urq bebe.zip * -x '*/.svn/*'` – Michael May 27 '10 at 14:01
ah — yes, sorry, of course. I looked back at an example of when I’d tried it, and I’d apparently only excluded *files*, not folders. apologies! – Mo. May 27 '10 at 15:30
Actually simpler than the first reply, so sticking with this one. – Michael Pliskin Jun 07 '11 at 12:18

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '10 at 14:04

It seems like -x works with file names and not with directories. I don't fully understand how this option works.

But I do have a solution for your question :

find . -type d -name .svn -prune -o -print | zip -uq bebe.zip -@

The find command excludes all directories named .svn (-type d -name .svn -prune) and lists all other files and folders (-o -print). The list is passed to zip through a pipe (-@ option read list of files in standard input).

If you don't want to only include directories with regular files, you can use -o -type f -print instead.

zip to exclude all .svn folders

2 Answers2