How to create a zip file without entire directory structure

Question

I am trying to create a zip file and want to preserve most of the directory structure, but not the rootdir as defined from the command line. The command I\'m using is:

Answer 1

I don't believe zip has a way to exclude the top level directory. I think your best bet would be to do something like: pushd /foo; zip -r out.zip ./bar; popd;

But this is exactly the sort of answer you said you didn't want.