zip command

[buxtonicer1]

Here is the situation. I have a directory called 848u and I want to zip it up. It has lots of subdirectories. But I want to zip it up but exclude a couple of subdirectories called 'data' (and everything in data) and DNYPS (everything in DNYPS) . I've tried the following below but not look so far. Any ideas ?


zip -r 848u 848u/* -x 848u/data/\* 848u/appserv/DNYPS\*

 

[buxtonicer1]

Also exclude lists are not an option as I only have read access to the box I'm trying to get at

 

[Annihilannic]

This should work as long as there aren't thousands of files to be excluded:

[tt]zip -r 848u 848u -x `find 848u/data 848u/appserv/DNYPS`[/tt]

Annihilannic.

 

[PHV]

exclude lists are not an option as I only have read access
So, how do you expect to create a zip file ?