<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <TITLE>-ax (Exclude archive filenames) switch</TITLE> <LINK href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>-ax (Exclude archive filenames) switch</H1> <P>Specifies archives to be excluded from the operation.</P> <P>Multiple exclude archive switches are supported.</P> <H4>Syntax</H4> <PRE class="syntax"> -ax[<recurse_type>]<file_ref> <recurse_type> ::= r[- | 0] <file_ref> ::= @{listfile} | !{wildcard} </PRE> <P>See <A href="include.htm">-xi (Include archive filenames)</A> switch description for information about option parameters.</P> <H4>Examples</H4> <PRE class="example"> 7z t -an -ai!*.7z -ax!a*.7z </PRE> <P>tests all <SPAN class="filename">*.7z</SPAN> archives, except <SPAN class="filename">a*.7z</SPAN> archives.</P> <H4>Commands that can be used with this switch</H4> <P> <A href="../commands/extract.htm">e (Extract)</A>, <A href="../commands/list.htm">l (List)</A>, <A href="../commands/test.htm">t (Test)</A>, <A href="../commands/extract_full.htm">x (Extract with full paths)</A> </P> <H4>See also</H4> <P> <B>Switches:</B> <A href="include.htm">-ai (Include archives)</A> <A href="ar_no.htm">-an (Disable parsing of archive_name)</A> </P> </BODY> </HTML>