tar: extract
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1 2.8 How to Extract Members from an Archive
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1 Creating an archive is only half the job--there is no point in storing
1 files in an archive if you can't retrieve them. The act of retrieving
1 members from an archive so they can be used and manipulated as
1 unarchived files again is called "extraction". To extract files from an
1 archive, use the '--extract' ('--get' or '-x') operation. As with
1 '--create', specify the name of the archive with '--file' ('-f') option.
1 Extracting an archive does not modify the archive in any way; you can
1 extract it multiple times if you want or need to.
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1 Using '--extract', you can extract an entire archive, or specific
1 files. The files can be directories containing other files, or not. As
1 with '--create' ('-c') and '--list' ('-t'), you may use the short or the
1 long form of the operation without affecting the performance.
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