linux unzip excluding everything in the folder and underneath

Question

Hi I have to unzip a file that could have a Directory and I want to exclude everything within that directory, I tried lot of options and looked here as well, but doesn't seem to find any good solution.

These are the contents of the zip file: Please note the depth of EXCLUDE folder is unknown, but we have to exclude everything

    $unzip -l patch2.zip
Archive:  patch2.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  2013-10-29 17:42   EXCLUDE/
        0  2013-10-29 17:24   EXCLUDE/inner/
        0  2013-10-29 17:24   EXCLUDE/inner/inner1.txt
        0  2013-10-29 15:45   EXCLUDE/file.txt
        0  2013-10-29 15:44   patch.jar
        0  2013-10-29 15:44   system.properties
---------                     -------
        0                     6 files

I tried this command, which only extract the files within it, but not the folder and its contents:

$unzip -l patch2.zip -x EXCLUDE/*
Archive:  patch2.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  2013-10-29 17:42   EXCLUDE/
        0  2013-10-29 17:24   EXCLUDE/inner/
        0  2013-10-29 17:24   EXCLUDE/inner/inner1.txt
        0  2013-10-29 15:44   patch.jar
        0  2013-10-29 15:44   system.properties
---------                     -------
        0                     5 files

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

You need to quote the exclude pattern so that it is passed to unzip. Otherwise it will be expanded by the shell before being passed to unzip.

Try:

unzip patch2.zip -x "EXCLUDE/*"