cmd - Add folder contents to .rar through console commands without adding folder itself -

here's question:

i have folder named root , contains files , folders. using winrar console commands, need create archive root.rar should contain entire file/folder structure of root , shouldn't contain root folder itself.

for example:

on drive:

root-     |-somefile     |-somefolder-                 |-someotherfile 

in root.rar archive:

somefile somefolder-           |-someotherfile 

i tried this:

"c:\program files\winrar\winrar.exe" -r root.rar root\* 

but adds root folder. tried this:

"c:\program files\winrar\winrar.exe" -ep -r root.rar root\* 

in case winrar didn't add root folder, didn't add other folders, , instead of folder tree i've got bunch of unstructured files. there way of adding folder structure, ignoring root?

thank you!

use -ep1 (exclude base folder names) instead of -ep (exclude paths names)