Can use
--strip-components=NUMBER strip NUMBER leading components from file names on extraction
in conjunction with -C
but have to create the directory first anyway, so moving (mv)after the fact is probably easier.
http://superuser.com/questions/146814/unpack-tar-but-change-directory-name-to-extract-to
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