How to extract files inside a directory from a tar file in terminal?

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Published on 2010-05-13T02:08:34Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 2:14 UTC
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Hello,

I want to extract only the files inside a folder of a tar file

Example:

Contents of tar file: /home/parent_dir/child_dir/

I want to extract only the files inside child_dir to another directory

Thanks, SB

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