How can Hadoop be extracted to a specific directory?

To unzip Hadoop into a specified directory, you can follow these steps:

1. First, download the compressed file of Hadoop (usually in .tar.gz or .zip format) to your local computer.
2. Find the downloaded file and move it to the directory where you want to extract it.
3. Open the command line terminal and navigate to the directory where you want to unzip the files.
4. To extract .tar.gz files, you can use the following command:

tar -zxvf hadoop-x.x.x.tar.gz

After decompression, a folder named hadoop-x.x.x will be created in the current directory, where x.x.x is the version number of Hadoop.

1. To extract a .zip file, you can use the following command:

unzip hadoop-x.x.x.zip

Similarly, hadoop-x.x.x.zip is the name of the downloaded Hadoop file. Upon extraction, a folder called hadoop-x.x.x will be created in the current directory.

1. After decompression is completed, you can enter the hadoop-x.x.x directory and start configuring and using Hadoop.

Caution: Before unpacking Hadoop, ensure that the target directory has enough disk space and sufficient permissions to create files and folders in that directory.