7z how to avoid extracting subfolders' files - 7zip

I am trying to append a script in my JAVA program to unzip the files in specific folder by 7z. Here come below script. But I found that it will also extract the .zip files in subfolder.
7z e -aoa -ppassword c:\xxx\desktop\fromFolder -oc:\xxx\desktop\toFolder > nul:
What if I want to extract the .zip files located in "fromFolder" only and exclude all files in the subfolders of "fromFolder". Please advice, thanks.

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- Sub-folder
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- Sub-folder
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- Archive
I would like to extract all archives in all sub-folders.
When extracting an archive I want the files to extract in the same directory as where the archive is located then once it is completed extracting I would like to delete the archive.
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I wanted to know how to move files to a .zip archive. I'm using this code: xcopy C:\Folder C:\AnotherFolder\zippedFolder.zip. This copies the files from C:\Folder DIRECTLY into the archive, but I want to have that file in the archive (so i can doubleclick the archive and see the file unopened).
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I found this on StackOverflow maybe it helps you.
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But be careful it deletes the source file after it adds it to the archive. See the link for more details.
UPDATE
Instructions from this site. http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_zip.htm.
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I was just wondering if 7-zip allows listing the content of the zip without unzipping it? And also if we can selectively unzip the excel file?
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I need some help with a batch file because I am stumped on WinRAR in Batch, as I haven't done/used it before.
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Each RAR file has the same Directory folder name("vegies" folder).
I would like to be able to extract/copy all folders/subfolders inside of each .rar from "Example/Program_Ex/vegie" back one directory into "Example/Program_Ex/vegies" (Dont forget the folder "vegies" already exists in each RAR which I cannot change as these automatically update themselves.)
So basically with a batch file I would like to:
extract "Example/Program_Ex/vegie/random.rar" to "Example/Program_Ex/vegies"
extract "Example/Program_Ex/vegie/random2.rar" to "Example/Program_Ex/vegies"
extract "Example/Program_Ex/vegie/random3.rar" to "Example/Program_Ex/vegies"
extract "Example/Program_Ex/vegie/random4.rar" to "Example/Program_Ex/vegies"
extract "Example/Program_Ex/vegie/random5.rar" to "Example/Program_Ex/vegies"
I also am trying to not specify a drive, more or less because the batch file will be in the correct folder instead using something such as "CD" or "PATH"?
I have looked at some examples around the web and on here of coarse, but I am still unsure the best way to go about this.
The closest example I can find would be this:
#echo off
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set source=source_folder_path
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(Above from http://fredy-invayne.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/example-winrar-batch-file.html)
Can anyone help give examples on how to implement my question please?
#echo off
for %%a in (
"%~dp0Example\Program_Ex\vegie\*.rar"
) do unrar x "%%~fa" -w "%~dp0Example\Program_Ex" -o+
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"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe" x -o+ "%~dp0Program_Ex\vegie\random*.rar" "%~dp0Program_Ex\"
If you omit it, the archiver will ask you what to do with existing files, if any.

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