All commands tested on Mac OS Monterey / Sep 12, 2023
How to extract a tar archive into a different directory
Extract files.tar to the directory ~/some-other-directory.
You can use this short tar command.
tar -xvf files.tar -C ~/some-other-directory-somewhere
Or this more verbose tar command.
tar --extract --verbose --file files.tar --directory ~/some-other-directory-somewhere
Options explained
-xor--extracttells tar to extract an existing archivevor--verbosetells tar to produce verbose outputfor--filetells tar that the next parameter will be the tar file to create, extract, append to, list, etc.-C,--cdor--directorytells tar to change (cd) into the directory before creating, listing, extracting, appending to etc. the archive
