htaccess rewrite url remove subdirectory

Question

I\'m trying to rewrite

http://www.example.com/directory/folder/*

to

http://www.example.com/directory/*

the htacce

Answer 1

What about

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^folder/(.*) /directory/$1 [L]

?? Or you can go without [L] or use [R] instead.