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Is it possible to create a target directory, similar to mkdir -p, where I can define a non-existent target directory within my tar command, and tar will create the directory for me?

I know I can redirect the output to a directory using tar -C /target/dir, but this doesn't work if the target directory is non-existent.

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

If you don't know the paths to create...

Get the needed paths from the tar file, then create them...

for P in `tar tvf tarfile.tar |tr -s [:space:] |cut -d' ' -f6`; do 
 C=`echo "$P: -1"` #get the last character 
 if [ $C = '/' ]; then 
 echo "Found directory: $P" 
 mkdir -p $P 
 fi 
done

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 stan‐
dard compression suffixes recognizable by --auto-compress).