Zipping folder except a subdirectory

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To zip a folder in the Linux use the command below.

zip -r arquivoZipado.zip pastaSerZipada/

How can I zip, except for a subdirectory of pastureSerZipada?

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The zip owns the flag -x or --exclude, which allows you to define file name masks and directories to be ignored during operation.

So to ignore the entire subdirectory subdir-fora-do-zip compression of the following file structure...

para-zipar/
  ├─ arquivo-no-zip
  ├─ subdir-fora-do-zip/
  │    └─ arquivo-fora-do-zip
  └─ subdir-no-zip
       └─ arquivo-no-zip

...execute:

zip -r zipado.zip para-zipar -x '*subdir-fora-do-zip*'

Obs.: Asterisks are important to ensure that the directory in question is ignored regardless of the level of recursion it is at.

By testing the compressed file, one can check the success of the use of flag -x:

$ unzip -t zipado.zip 
Archive:  zipado.zip
    testing: para-zipar/              OK
    testing: para-zipar/arquivo-no-zip   OK
    testing: para-zipar/subdir-no-zip/   OK
    testing: para-zipar/subdir-no-zip/arquivo-no-zip   OK
No errors detected in compressed data of zipado.zip.

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