zip 父目录中的文件和文件夹，不包括父目录 + Amazon Linux

Question

Is there a Linux command to zip the files and folders inside a parent directory without including the parent directory. From all the solutions that I tried, the parent directory also is getting zipped

Answer 1

Move into the folder, then zip:

cd my-folder
zip -r ../my-archive.zip *

Dirty, but effective

Or, in a more fancy way, using tar :

tar czf my-archive.tar.gz -C /path/to/my-foder/ ./