Unix zip directory but excluded specific subdirectories (and everything within them)
I was so close!
The actual command I need is:
zip -r myarchive.zip dir1 -x dir1/ignoreDir1/**\* dir1/ignoreDir2/**\*
For my particular system in order to exclude a directory I had to put quotes around my excluded directories and it worked like a charm:
zip -r myarchive.zip dir1 -x "dir1/ignoreDir1/*" "dir1/ignoreDir2/*"
Notes:
-- this excluded both the directory to exclude and all files inside it.
-- You must use the full path to the directories you want to exclude!
@sulman using:
zip -r myarchive.zip dir1 -x dir1/ignoreDir1/**\* dir1/ignoreDir2/**\*
will still include dir1/ignoreDir1/ empty folder in the zip archive, using:
zip -r myarchive.zip dir1 -x dir1/ignoreDir1** dir1/ignoreDir2**
will do the trick, you can also use a leading ** to search in subfolders instead of only dir1