[SOLVED] untar into a given directory

[ivanhelguera]

Hello,
is there a simple method to provide a directory into which a tar archive is to be decompressed?

tar xvzf example.tar.gz

will untar it into the current directory. What is the way to change that?
Thanks in advance,
IH

[peteh]

I usually cd into the appropriate folder first and then tar x.
There may also be another way but this works for me.

[blinky]

From the man page :

tar -C <dir_to_untar_into> xvzf example.tar.gz

[ivanhelguera]

Thank both of you - I overlooked the -C option.