Q:

jenkins archive artifact excluding all subdirectory

I have a couple of job in Jenkins that archive artifact from the source tree for another job (some unit tests or alike).  I have the current situation :
top_dir
  \scripts_dir
      \some_files
      \dir1
      \dir2
      \dir3
  \other_dir

I would like to archive all that is in "top_dir" including the files in "scripts_dir", but not the subdirectories "dir1, dir2,...", which I do not know the name, that are in "scripts_dir".  These subdirs are actually Windows directory joints that point to other places on the disk, and I do not want them to be copied. 
How do I achieve this with the inculde/excludes pattern of Jenkins ? 
I already tried, having include=top_dir/ , exclude=
**/scripts_dir/*/
**/scripts_dir/*/**
**/scripts_dir/**/*

but it always exculdes the whole "scripts_dir" folder. 

A:

Finally, by using brute force, I found that the following expression does exclude all the files in the subdirectories of scripts_dir (whatever symlink or not), then removing these subdirs, while keeping the files directly in scripts_dir :
**/scripts_dir/**/*/*/

Thanks for the help anyway.