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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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