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don_crissti
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How do you extract a single folder from a large tar.gz archive?

I am using this command on a 5GB archive

tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz /folder/in/archive

is this the correct way to do this? It seems to be taking forever with no command line output...

Garrett Hall
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