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7Zip - Command Line : Exclude folder(s) by wildcard pattern?

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Mar 15, 2026186094 views
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Problem

Any idea how to exclude a wild-carded path(s) from a command-line 7zip command? I'm doing something like this: and would like to exclude any or folders found underneath "FolderToArchive". To exclude files, you can use the parameter. The help file gives this example for using : That's great for excluding a file. But, again, I would like to exclude a wildcard-specified folder. Under my "FolderToArchive" there are multiple folders, under those folders there may or may not be and folders. I would like to not include these in the archive. I've tried patterns like None seem to exclude the folder. Is this simply a limitation of 7zip?

Error Output

7z.exe a -t7z archive.7z FolderToArchive\ -mx0

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To exclude the bin and obj folders recursively you can use the command:

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