The traditional approach...viva unix...

No tarball other than in the streams... 

  $ (cd src_dir; tar cvf - .) | (cd target_dir; tar xvf -)

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or never change your current directory, but wish to redirect from an existing tarball: 

  $ (cd tarfile_dir; tar xvf - tarball.tar) | (cd tgt_dir; tar xvf -)

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Update:As mem points out below, the second example above is sort of meaningless -- no need for the pipe...this is what I meant: 

  $ (cd tgt_dir; tar xvf - src_dir/tarball.tar)

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In the cases where the tarball already exists, this presumes that the directory paths are relative vs. absolute. (as is pointed out below, you can use -C to redirect absolute paths to relative)

Matt

update: removed redundant first example, functionally nothing more than: 

  $ cd tgt_dir; tar xvf src_dir/tarball.tar

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Because I was thinking of: 

  $ gunzip -c tarball.tar.gz | (cd tgtdir; tar xvf -)

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In reply to Re: tar_mv: move tar data as it's being extracted by mojotoad
in thread tar_mv: move tar data as it's being extracted by belden

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