How to zip contents recursively under the directory foo/*.*?

Question

zip -r /tmp/foo/bar.zip /tmp/foo/* > /dev/null 2>&1

and the achieve is in this structure

   /tmp
      /foo
         file1
         file2
         dir1/
           file3
         dir/2
           file4

Why is /tmp part of the structure?

Answer 1

It is because you tell it to do that ;-)

I would do something like this:

cd /tmp && zip -r /tmp/bar.zip ./foo/* >/dev/null 2>&1