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

This is what I ended up doing :

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)folder 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ folder/$1 [L]

Answer 2

What about

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

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