Create target directory when extracting tarball

mkdir -p /target/dir && tar -C /target/dir

tar -xvf bash.html_node.tar.gz --one-top-level

From man page of tar command

--one-top-level[=DIR]

Extract all files into DIR, or, if used without argument, into a subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard compression suffixes recognizable by --auto-compress).

----- test

test 1

tar zxvf ../aaa.tgz --one-top-level
aaa/
aaa/222
aaa/111

tree aaa
aaa/
├── 111
└── 222

// if tgz name same as root_dir of archive, no other effect

test 2

mv ../aaa.tgz ../bbb.tgz

tar zxvf ../bbb.tgz --one-top-level
aaa/
aaa/222
aaa/111

tree bbb
bbb
└── aaa
    ├── 111
    └── 222

// if tgz name not same as root_dir of archive, create a top-level dir

This made more sense to me: mkdir -p /create/folder && tar -zxf haroopad-v0.13.0_x64.tar.gz -C /create/testfolder

mkdir makes the folder although I don't quite understand the -p switch. && lets you execute a second command. I used typical tar switches but at the end -C is used to change directories and extract to that location needed.

reference: extract-files-contained-in-archive-tar-gz-to-new-directory-named-archive