compress a folder WITHOUT any sub folders

[Michael Gould]

This is, I believe, a topic that is already out there described in a variety of ways, so let me
give a real life example:

I want to compress "C:\Windows\System32" without all of the sub folders.

this example:

7z a -x!*\ D:\zipfile c:\FolderParent

produces an empty file

Anyone figured out how to just get the files of a folder without any sub folders?

Sometimes you just want the folder and its contents not the entire parent/child tree

[Igor Pavlov]

cd /d C:\Windows\System32
7z a c:\a.7z -x!*\