Compressing only files using 7z without preserving the path

Question

I am using 7z command line executable to zip files, but I see that while adding to an archive the path of the files is preserved in the archive.

So if I do

Answer 1

I discovered a way to do this by using a relative path:

7z a -tzip  myzip.zip %CD%\dir1\dir2\*

%CD% is how you get the current path in a Windows batch file, but it also works from the command line. More info about Capturing the current directory from a batch file.