Redirection of a tar file

[Perry Hoekstra <dutchman@uswest.net>]

Greet the sun all,

How do you redirect the output of a tar extraction.  If it can be done
in NT, I know it can be done in Linux. I have looked in the man pages
and a couple of books with no luck.  Essentially, I want to:

tar -xvf sometarfile.tar > /opt/somedirectory

where the > is some type of pipe command to place the files relative,
not to the current directory, but the one I specify.

Thank you
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Perry Hoekstra - dutchman@mn.uswest.net
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