Unzip the tar file into a different directory

I want to unzip a tar file to a specified directory called /tmp/data. How do I use the tar command to decompress a tar file into a different directory on a Linux or Unix-like system?

You don’t have to use the cd command to switch to other directories and unzip. A file can be decompressed using the following syntax:

Syntax

Typical Unix tar syntax:

tar -xf file.name.tar -C /path/to/directory

GNU/tar Syntax:

tar xf file.tar -C /path/to/directory
 
tar xf file.tar --directory /path/to/directory

Example: Extract the file to another directory

In this example. I unzipped $HOME/etc.backup.tar to the /tmp/data directory. First, you need to create this directory manually, enter:

mkdir /tmp/data

To unzip $HOME/etc.backup.tar to /tmp/data, enter:

 tar -xf $HOME/etc.backup.tar -C /tmp/data

To see the progress, use the -v option:

tar -xvf $HOME/etc.backup.tar -C /tmp/data

Example output ：

Gif 01: The tar command decompresses files to different directories

You can also specify the decompressed files:

tar -xvf $HOME/etc.backup.tar file1 file2 file3 dir1 -C /tmp/data

To decompress the foo.tar.gz (.tgz extension file) package into /tmp/bar , type:

mkdir /tmp/bar
tar -zxvf foo.tar.gz -C /tmp/bar

To unzip the foo.tar.bz2 (.tbz, .tbz2 and .tb2 extension files) package to /tmp/bar, type:

mkdir /tmp/bar
tar -jxvf foo.tar.bz2 -C /tmp/bar

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