shell scripting - How to zip contents inside a folder without the folder itself?

Question

I use this current command that archives the folder "folder-root" and all it's content to a file named "site.zip":

zip -r site.zip folder-root/*

Problem is - I want to zip the contents of the folder and not the folder itself. Notice: I must issue the command from the current directory (ie - can't issue it from inside the folder).

How do I do that?

Answer 1

This should do the job:

zip -rj site.zip folder-root/*

zip --help says:

-j   junk (don't record) directory

Answer 2

This question has a similiar problem and the answer could work. How can I build a tar from stdin?

zip site.zip `ls -1 folder-root/`

This will create the list of files that you want to add into your zip file.