I can't manage to figure out the -x
option in the command zip.
I want to compress a working folder to save it as a backup, but I have some files and a directory that contains huge files that I don't need to save.
Therefore I would like to compress the whole directory except for the one listed above.
Here is my script:
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo "Saving all work directory in the backup"
now=$(date +'%Y_%m_%d')
filename=($(echo "backup_"$now))
cd /local00/home/F48174/Documents/scripts_eprou_aster/
echo "... removing /base because it's huge ..."
zip -9 -r /local00/home/F48174/Documents/backup/$filename.zip -x /local00/home/F48174/Documents/scripts_eprou_aster/base/
zip
what has to be zipped:zip -r archive.zip folder_to_zip -x file_not_to_zip
– Jasper May 12 '14 at 8:30