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I have a list of files that I want to zip but I also have a list to exclude files and do not want them to be included in the zip archive.
so I have created a exclude.lst file and it has absolute path and filenames in it.
sample exclude file
/home/logs/apache/access.log
/home/logs/tomcat/catalina.out
but after using the below command, the zip command is not excluding the files rather archiving them.
zip archives.2012.zip /home/logs/ [email protected]
how can I overcome this ? and is there any other way to archive files by excluding the above files.
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You can define -x multiple times in a single zip command to exclude multiple files and directories from zip archive.
Syntax : $zip –m filename.zip file.txt 4. -r Option: To zip a directory recursively, use the -r option with the zip command and it will recursively zips the files in a directory. This option helps you to zip all the files present in the specified directory.
To list/view the contents of a compressed file on a Linux host without uncompressing it (and where GZIP is installed), use the "zcat" command.
Select the “Files” option : your file explorer should start automatically. Now that you are in your file explorer, select multiple folders by holding the “Control” key and left-clicking on all the folders to be zipped. When you are done, right-click and select the “Compress” option.
Instead of creating exclude.lst file, I'm assigning all the exclude files to a variable and passing those to the -x option in the zip.
For example
do_not_archive=/home/logs/apache/access.log /home/logs/tomcat/catalina.out
Then use zip as shown below
zip archives.2012.zip /home/logs/ -x $do_not_archive
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