diff --git a/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/k8sutils.go b/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/k8sutils.go
index 23035445..934f1dae 100644
--- a/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/k8sutils.go
+++ b/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/k8sutils.go
@@ -621,15 +621,9 @@ func GetEnvsFromFile(file string, opt kobject.ConvertOptions) (map[string]string
 	return envLoad, nil
 }
 
-// GetContentFromFile get content from file
+// GetContentFromFile gets the content from the file..
 func GetContentFromFile(file string, opt kobject.ConvertOptions) (string, error) {
-	// Get the correct file context / directory
-	composeDir, err := transformer.GetComposeFileDir(opt.InputFiles)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", errors.Wrap(err, "Unable to load file context")
-	}
-	fileLocation := path.Join(composeDir, file)
-	fileBytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(fileLocation)
+	fileBytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(file)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", errors.Wrap(err, "Unable to read file")
 	}
@@ -646,9 +640,13 @@ func FormatEnvName(name string) string {
 
 // FormatFileName format file name
 func FormatFileName(name string) string {
-	envName := strings.Trim(name, "./")
-	envName = strings.Replace(envName, "_", "-", -1)
-	return envName
+	// Split the filepath name so that we use the
+	// file name (after the base) for ConfigMap,
+	// it shouldn't matter whether it has special characters or not
+	_, file := path.Split(name)
+
+	// Make it DNS-1123 compliant for Kubernetes
+	return strings.Replace(file, "_", "-", -1)
 }
 
 //FormatContainerName format Container name
diff --git a/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes.go b/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
index 8792b745..e5f2d845 100644
--- a/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
+++ b/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ func (k *Kubernetes) InitConfigMapFromFile(name string, service kobject.ServiceC
 	}
 
 	originFileName := FormatFileName(fileName)
+
 	dataMap := make(map[string]string)
 	dataMap[originFileName] = content
 	configMapName := ""
diff --git a/script/test/cmd/tests.sh b/script/test/cmd/tests.sh
index f13201fb..d4dcf45b 100755
--- a/script/test/cmd/tests.sh
+++ b/script/test/cmd/tests.sh
@@ -844,10 +844,9 @@ convert::expect_success "$cmd" "/tmp/output-os.json"
 cmd="kompose convert --stdout -j -f -"
 sed -e "s;%VERSION%;$version;g" -e "s;%CMD%;$cmd;g"  $KOMPOSE_ROOT/script/test/fixtures/stdin/output-k8s.json > /tmp/output-k8s.json
 cat $KOMPOSE_ROOT/script/test/fixtures/stdin/docker-compose.yaml | $cmd | diff /tmp/output-k8s.json -
-EXIT_STATUS=$?
 
 echo -e "\n"
 go test -v github.com/kubernetes/kompose/script/test/cmd
 
 rm /tmp/output-k8s.json /tmp/output-os.json
-exit $EXIT_STATUS
\ No newline at end of file
+exit $EXIT_STATUS