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here's my goal: i would like to zip up everything in my shell, but exclude several directories. let's say i want my file to be called "site.zip", and i want ...
  1. 12-28-2007 #1
    skizuz
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    zip command help

    here's my goal: i would like to zip up everything in my shell, but exclude several directories. let's say i want my file to be called "site.zip", and i want to exclude the directories "bigfiles" and "bigfiles2". i seem to be running into issues no matter how i try this... can anybody help out a n00b?

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    You might try something like find -wholename "./bigfiles" -prune -o -wholename "./bigfiles2" -prune -o -print|gzip - >site.gz.
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