How to archive everything but pictures?

Question

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I'm not strong in * nix commands, tell me.
I know how to archive an arbitrary folder. And how would I archive everything (including files in subdirectories) except for files with a specific extension?
Pictures and videos should be excluded.

Answer 1

tar -pczvf archive.tar.gz --exclude="*.avi" --exclude="*jpg" /path/to/dir

Answer 2

or so
find . -type f \( -iname "*.*" ! -iname "*.php" \) | zip arch.zip [email protected]

Answer 3

find. -not \( -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.png' -o -name '*.gif'\) | xargs tar -czvf archive.tar.gz