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  • What about my -x "..*" Won't it avoid going to parent of the root? I have been using this for years... Commented Mar 20, 2019 at 17:11
  • Your -x option avoids storing the files from .. etc. in the archive, but it doesn’t avoid zip checking them: that’s what I meant when I wrote “The second is that zip checks all the file names it’s given, when it’s asked to recurse, before filtering excluded patterns” (excluded patterns being the patterns given with -x). Commented Mar 20, 2019 at 17:14
  • Oh I missed when you said "before filtering excluded patterns"... that might explain all this... wow... Thanks Commented Mar 20, 2019 at 17:19
  • That means my -x "..*" strategy looks into lot of unnecessary places... I would need to update this everywhere, LOL....... Commented Mar 20, 2019 at 17:20
  • The one with only the . seems to work... I endedup long long time ago tailoring that script to put .* because for some reason it was not including hidden files (starting with .) if my memory is right... oh well might have missed something back them... just using . seem pretty simple and clean. Commented Mar 20, 2019 at 17:23