Create multiple archives from a directory without the directory root name being added to the archive

Solution 1:

You simply need to use just a for loop omitting the /d parameter and it will work just as you describe creating the zip archive file(s) and not contain its parent folder.

Commands

Note: This will add a zip archive file for each file in the directory with only that file in the zip.

for %%X in (*) do "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "%%~X.zip" "%%~X"

Note: This will add all files only in the directory to the one zip file you specify.

for %%X in (*) do "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "<MyZipFileName>.zip" "%%~X"

Nest Loop Command

Note: This will add files only from the directories beneath the directory which the batch file resides to a zip file matching the name of the directory.

@ECHO ON

FOR /F "TOKENS=*" %%A in ('DIR /S /B /AD "*"') DO (
  FOR %%B IN (*) DO (
      "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "%%~fA.zip" "%%~fA\*")
)
EXIT

Further Resources

• For /F

• FOR /?

      tokens=x,y,m-n  - specifies which tokens from each line are to
                        be passed to the for body for each iteration.
                        This will cause additional variable names to
                        be allocated.  The m-n form is a range,
                        specifying the mth through the nth tokens.  If
                        the last character in the tokens= string is an
                        asterisk, then an additional variable is
                        allocated and receives the remaining text on
                        the line after the last token parsed.
  

• Dir
• For
• a (Add) command