No need to chdir. The FilterName option was written primarily to handle this use case. The code below assumes Unix/Linux path delimeters. 

zip [$tmpfiles.'/file1.txt',$tmpfiles.'file2.txt']
          =>$tmpfiles.'/output.zip',
   FilterName => sub { s[^.*/][] };

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Alternatively, you could do away with the temporary files completely and write directly to the zip file 

use Archive::Zip::SimpleZip qw($SimpleZipError) ;

my $z = new Archive::Zip::SimpleZip $tmpfiles.'/output.zip'
    or die "Cannot create zip file: $SimpleZipError\n" ;

# If the data is in a string 
$z->addString("some text", Name => "file1.txt");

# or if you need carry out more complex processing
$fh = $z->openMember(Name => "file3.txt");
print $fh "some data" ;
print $fh "some more data" ;
close $fh;

$z->close();

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In reply to Re: Zip only files, not directory hierarchy. by pmqs
in thread Zip only files, not directory hierarchy. by desertrat

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