Zip to exclude all .svn folders

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trying to exclude all .svn folders in the zipped subfolders

zip -urq bebe.zip * -x .svn

doesn't work…

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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.

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Conceptually, you want something like:

for each file in base folder not in exclude list
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bash logic to achieve this goes something like

#! /bin/bash

exclude=( "foo.conf" "bar.conf" )

for file in *; do
    for (( index = 0; index < ${#exclude[@]}; index++ )); do
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    done
done

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