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in reply to Re: Zip only files, not directory hierarchy.
in thread Zip only files, not directory hierarchy.

Yes, but this is for the use of naive end-users in WIndows, who will be double-clicking on the zip files.

doing a "chdir $tmppath;" prior to the zip command does exactly what I needed it to do.