How to zip a directory without having to cd into the directory and still keeping the nested folder structure

Question

As part of a sh script I create a folder I would like to zip. Looking something like this:

my-directory-to-zip
├── file1
├── file2
├── dir1
│   ├── file3
│   ├── file4

When I then zip it the files are then nested inside my-directory-to-zip, where I sould like he folder structure to look something like this inside the zip file:

file1
file2
dir1
├── file3
├── file4

you can imagine my current sh-script looks something like this:

<commands that makes and fills my-directory-to-zip>
zip -r my-zip-file.zip ./my-directory-to-zip
rm -r my-directory-to-zip

I have tried:

<commands that makes and fills my-directory-to-zip>
cd my-directory-to-zip
zip -r ../my-zip-file.zip .
cd ..
rm -r my-directory-to-zip

but that fails with:

bash: cd: my-directory-to-zip: No such file or directory

When I copy pastes the commands directly into the terminal it works perfectly, with the cd into the directory.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65935910/how-to-zip-a-directory-without-having-to-cd-into-the-directory-and-still-keeping

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