How do I unzip a tar gz archive to a specific destination?

Question

I want to unpack a .tar.gz file to a specific directory.

The archive file is in /root/Documents. I want to unzip it into /root/Desktop/folder. The folder structure in zipped file should be preserved in the destination directory.

Answer 1

You have two choices:

cd /root/Desktop/folder
tar zxf /root/Documents/file.tar.gz

or

tar zxf file.tar.gz -C /root/Desktop/folder