TAR command to extract a single file from a .tar.gz

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Published on 2010-04-08T13:33:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 13:43 UTC
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Does anyone have a command syntax for extracting 1 file from a .tar.gz that also allows me to place the extracted file in a certain directory? I have Google'd this and get too many variations with a lot of forum threads stating the syntax doesn't work. Before I venture on I prefer to know the command will work because I do not want to risk overwriting files and directories already present on my server.

Thanks.

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