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How to zip certain folders only using SSH & Putty?

I have a file structure like this on one of the servers I'm working on online:

foldera/
-subfoldera/
-filexx.xx
-filexxx.xx
folderb/
folderc/
folderd/
foldere/
folderf/
file1.xx
file2.xx
file3.xx

I would like to put all files and folders and the contents inside each folder except for folderc in one zip file name bd.zip

How can I do this in SSH using Putty?

Adrian Cantrill

zip -r name.zip foldera/* foldrb/* folderc/* folderd/* foldere/* folderf/* file1.xx file2.xx file3.xx

Adrian Cantrill

ahh sorry didnt see the folderC exclusion

zip -r name.zip foldera/* folderb/* folderd/* foldere/* folderf/* file1.xx file2.xx file3.xx

Adrian Cantrill

and the name.zip should obviously be bd.zip

Bandai2

ASKER

I have to type the folder names and file names one by one? Is there no other way to do this? I have like over 50 folders and files are over a hundred.. I just need to exclude a couple of folders from the zip file..

Also the file structure above is also inside another folder, so maybe that would help..

Adrian Cantrill

Ok well you could do

zip -r bd.zip * -x folderc/* etc etc

i.e add the whole tree but exclude a number of files/folders with the -x.

Bandai2

ASKER

zip -r bd.zip * -x folderc/* etc etc

this only work with files.. it still include the folders I excluded.

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Adrian Cantrill

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