<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <TITLE>-x (Exclude filenames) switch</TITLE> <LINK href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>-x (Exclude filenames) switch</H1> <P>Specifies which filenames or wildcarded names must be excluded from the operation.</P> <P>Multiple exclude switches are supported.</P> <H4>Syntax</H4> <PRE class="syntax"> -x[<recurse_type>]<file_ref> <recurse_type> ::= r[- | 0] <file_ref> ::= @{listfile} | !{wildcard} </PRE> <P>See <A href="include.htm">-i (Include)</A> switch description for information about option parameters.</P> <H4>Examples</H4> <PRE class="example"> 7z a -tzip archive.zip *.txt -x!temp.* </PRE> <P>adds to the <SPAN class="filename">archive.zip</SPAN> all <SPAN class="filename">*.txt</SPAN> files, except <SPAN class="filename">temp.*</SPAN> files.</P> <PRE class="example"> 7z a archive.7z Folder1\ -xr!*.png </PRE> <P>adds to the <SPAN class="filename">archive.7z</SPAN> all files from <SPAN class="filename">Folder1</SPAN> and its subfolders, except <SPAN class="filename">*.png</SPAN> files.</P> <H4>Commands that can be used with this switch</H4> <P> <A href="../commands/add.htm">a (Add)</A>, <A href="../commands/delete.htm">d (Delete)</A>, <A href="../commands/hash.htm">h (Hash)</A>, <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/rename.htm">rn (Rename)</A>, <A href="../commands/update.htm">u (Update)</A>, <A href="../commands/extract_full.htm">x (Extract with full paths)</A> </P> <H4>See also</H4> <P> <B>Switches:</B> <A href="recurse.htm">-r (Recurse)</A>, <A href="include.htm">-i (Include)</A> </P> </BODY> </HTML>