zip -i

[Rozzy85]

I'm new to using Linux and I'm trying to get zip to compress some files. I'm trying to find more infomation on the option -i for including files but can't find anything much useful through Google. All documentation seems to be a copy and paste from another site.

I want it to compress the files with a specified name. For example I have:

myfile.doc
myfile.xls
myfile.pdf

I want it to only compress myfile.doc and myfile.xls.

I can only find an example for files named with a certain suffix, ie:

zip -r myarchive . -i \*.doc

But I want it the other way round so:

zip -r myarchive . -i \myfile.*

which doesn't work. I also want it to exclude files name *.pdf. I don't know the syntax well so don't know what to try.

 

[tntcoder]

Remove the \ so it becomes:

zip -r myarchive . -i myfile.*

Should do the job.

 

[Rozzy85]

Still doesn't work.

I think it might be because the files are in subdirectories. It works when using *.doc but not when I use myfile.*. If I put the files in the CWD it'll archive them when using myfile.*.

EDIT: Found the solution. I needed to put another wildcard in at the beginning, so: -i *myfile.*