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How to Extract Members from an Archive

Extracting Files from an Archive
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   Creating an archive is only half the job--there would be no point in
storing files in an archive if you couldn't retrieve them.  To extract
files from an archive, use the `--extract' (`-x') operation.

   To extract specific files, use their names as file name arguments.
If you use a directory name as a file name argument, `tar' extracts all
the files (including subdirectories) in that directory.  If you don't
use any file name arguments, `tar' extracts all the files in the
archive.

   Note: `tar' will extract an archive member into the file system
without checking to see if there is already a file with the archive
member's file name.  If there is a file with that name, `tar' will
*overwrite* that file and its contents will be lost.
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