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...

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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

Comments

[Admin]

Unix zip directory but excluded specific subdirectories, how to exclude directories and file zipping a directory?, How to exclude a directory when zipping files, etc.

[Michael]

no, sorry. but this one worked zip -urq bebe.zip * -x '*/.svn/*'

[Mo.]

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!

[Michael Pliskin]

Actually simpler than the first reply, so sticking with this one.