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#!/bin/bash

path_where_zip_should_be_exexcutet="./../"
# Replace with your desired directory and excluded directories
directory_to_zip="html"
excluded_dirs=("var/cache" "var/log" "public/media")

# Create the zip file name
zip_file="${directory_to_zip}.zip"

# Build the exclude patterns
exclude_patterns=()
for dir in "${excluded_dirs[@]}"; do
  exclude_patterns+=("$directory_to_zip/$dir/*")
done

# Zip the directory with exclusions
#-0 means no compression (totally worthless, cause big files like images, videos are already compressed)
cd $path_where_zip_should_be_exexcutet && zip -r -0 "$zip_file" "$directory_to_zip" -x "${exclude_patterns[@]}"