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How to Extract Members from an Archive
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   Creating an archive is only half the job--there is no point in
storing files in an archive if you can't retrieve them.  The act of
retrieving members from an archive so they can be used and manipulated
as unarchived files again is called "extraction".  To extract files
from an archive, use the `--extract' (`--get', `-x') operation.  As with
`--create' (`-c'), specify the name of the archive with
`--file=ARCHIVE-NAME' (`-f ARCHIVE-NAME').  Extracting an archive does
not modify the archive in any way; you can extract it multiple times if
you want or need to.

   Using `--extract', you can extract an entire archive, or specific
files.  The files can be directories containing other files, or not.  As
with `--create' (`-c') and `--list' (`-t'), you may use the short or the
long form of the operation without affecting the performance.

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