Answer by Nasir Riley for Zip but do not scan excluded folder

You will need to include the full path to the directory that you want to exclude. If it is inside of /home/test:

zip -r myzip.zip /home/test -x /home/test/share/\*

If it's elsewhere:

zip -r myzip.zip /home/test -x /home/test/path/to/share/\*