How can I untar a sub directory?

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Published on 2010-04-16T05:58:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 6:03 UTC
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Suppose I have a tar that contains:

/                # Root directory
/level1/         # A sub directory
/level1/a.file
/level1/b.file
/level1/...      # The rest

How can I do something like tar -xf that would untar the contents level1/ like this:

/a.file
/b.file
/...       # The rest 

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