How do I exclude a subfolder of a subfolder in compress-archive-CodePudding

I want to zip a folder containing files, and subfolders containing more files and more subfolders. But I want exclude just one subfolder of a subfolder. I have seen many various complicated answers but none seem to really work on this scenario.

folder structure

temp/
   a/
     aa/
        aaa/
            aaaa/
                 filesinaaaa.txt
            filesinaaa.txt
        filesinaa.txt
     at.txt
   b/
     bb/
     bt.txt
   c.txt

I want to exclude all files in a/aa/aaa/ while keeping the resulting zip in the same dir structure. And if possible remove the files that were included in the zip.

So result expected is

temp/
  a/
     aa/
        aaa/
            aaaa/
                 filesinaaaa.txt
            filesinaaa.txt
  result.zip

In linux it is as simple as

cd temp
zip -rm result.zip . -x "a/aa/aaa/*"

what is the simplest way to do this in powershell?

answers i've tried do not really work on subfolder of a subfolder.

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over complicated result Archive folder without some subfolders and files using PowerShell

CodePudding user response：

You can use 7z CLI to do so, here is the doc explaining the usage of -x option in 7z

Showing an example of the option below for reference

The directory structure explained in the question:

C:\Users\adam_\Desktop\temp〉dir -R
a  b  c.txt

./a:
aa  at.txt

./a/aa:
aaa  filesinaa.txt

./a/aa/aaa:
aaaa  filesinaaa.txt

./a/aa/aaa/aaaa:
filesinaaaa.txt

./b:
bb  bt.txt

./b/bb:

Creating the archive:

PS C:\Users\adam_\Desktop\temp> 7z a -tzip result.zip . -x!a/aa/aaa/*

7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21

Scanning the drive:
5 folders, 4 files, 63 bytes (1 KiB)

Creating archive: result.zip

Add new data to archive: 5 folders, 4 files, 63 bytes (1 KiB)


Files read from disk: 4
Archive size: 1217 bytes (2 KiB)
Everything is Ok

Result archive details:

PS C:\Users\adam_\Desktop\temp> 7z l .\result.zip

7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 1217 bytes (2 KiB)

Listing archive: .\result.zip

--
Path = .\result.zip
Type = zip
Physical Size = 1217

   Date      Time    Attr         Size   Compressed  Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
2022-05-05 09:48:37 D....            0            0  a
2022-05-05 09:48:12 D....            0            0  a\aa
2022-05-05 09:47:45 D....            0            0  a\aa\aaa
2022-05-05 09:48:12 ....A           13           13  a\aa\filesinaa.txt
2022-05-05 09:48:37 ....A           13           13  a\at.txt
2022-05-05 09:49:20 D....            0            0  b
2022-05-05 09:48:58 D....            0            0  b\bb
2022-05-05 09:49:20 ....A           19           19  b\bt.txt
2022-05-05 09:49:56 ....A           18           18  c.txt
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
2022-05-05 09:49:56                 63           63  4 files, 5 folders