How To Untar A File To A Specific File Destination

ok, so today i was playing around with tar. i had a compressed tarball file and i wanted to uncompress to a particular file.

for example, lets say i was in my home directory: /home/wallpaperama

and in my /home/wallpaperama/ there was a file caleld wallpapers.tar.gz

but when i uncompress the file with this command:



this would extract all the files in my home directory (my current working directory) but what i wanted to so was to execute the command from my home directory but uncompress the files to another directory.. for example i wanted to send all the umcompressed files to /var/www/html/ so this is how it should be done:



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