I've looked around at multiple sources for this question and I know how to extract the file, but neither source told me how to state where to put the folder once it has been extracted.I tried this:tar -xvf tarball.tar.gz my/folder/im/extractingWhen I did this it seemed to extract it as it listed out it's contents, but also followed with the error:gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file  tar: Unexpected EOF in archive  tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting nowI checked the current directory but I didn't see the folder.How can this be done or is the error preventing the creation of it in the current directory?
Extracting a certain folder from a tarball - how do I tell it where to put the file once extracted?
shell;ssh;command line;tar
tar -xvf tarball.tar.gz my/folder/im/extractingThis extracts the archive member my/folder/im/extracting at the location my/folder/im/extracting. If the archive member is a directory, its contents are extracted (including subdirectories, recursively).If you want to extract to a different directory, with GNU or FreeBSD tar (so on non-embedded Linux, Cygwin, FreeBSD and OSX), you can usetar -xvf tarball.tar.gz --transform '!my/folder/im/extracting!somewhere/else!' my/folder/im/extractingIf you just want to put my under a different (existing) directory, you can usetar -xvf tarball.tar.gz -C different/directory my/folder/im/extractingThe error gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file has nothing to do with the way you're using tar. Unexpected end of file means that gzip reached the end of the file but the file format indicates that there should have been more data. In other words, the file was truncated, e.g. because your download was interrupted.