windows - Batch file script to zip files

Question

i have a folder structure in this pattern. I've just shown two sub directories and 2 files in each but generally I have n number of subdirectories at a single level and single level of files (but can be n number of files)under them.

Directory master
subDirectory x:
  file1
  file2
Directory y:
  file 3
  file 4

I need to create a windows script, a batch file to run from the master directory and give me two zip files x.zip and y.zip containing their respective files.

I know my script has to use for and zip commands but I am going bonkers trying to get it to work as I can't understand from the syntax of these commands and googling doesnt seem to help.

I found a command like this for %f in ("*.*") do zip "%~nf.zip" "%f" but it seems to be working only if the files are directly there without subfolders.

Answer 1

for /d %%a in (*) do (ECHO zip -r -p "%%~na.zip" ".\%%a*")

should work from within a batch.

Note that I've included an ECHO to simply SHOW the command that is proposed. You'd need to remove the ECHO keywor to EXECUTE the commands.