tar ..untar one file

[toolshed]

I have my system backed up on hard drive. I want to extract just one file from the .tar.gz file.

How can I extract just one file from a .tar.gz instead of the untarring the whole .tar.gz file?

[Icarus]

tar zxvf archivename.tar.gz file-to-extract

"man tar" will have the details ;)