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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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