It is very usefull to know how to exact a certain file or subfolder from a gzipped archive.
You can browse the archive with vim and see exactly what files and subfolders are in the archive. To browse in a subfolder contained by an archive, double click on that subfolder from the archive, in the vim instance.
$ vim archive.tar.gz
Let’s assume that we have in the archive the files file1 file2 and the subfolders sub1 and sub2 containing file3 and file4 (sub1/file3 and sub2/file4).
I will show you how to exact file1 from the archive and sub2/file4, from the sub2 directory.
Exact file1:
$ tar --extract --file=archive.tar.gz file1
Exactract sub2/file4:
$ tar --extract --file=archive.tar.gz sub2/file4
To exact certain files from subfolders inside archive, use only relative paths.
this is the proof that my method works: test.