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borg extract
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    borg [common options] extract [options] ARCHIVE PATH

ARCHIVE
    archive to extract
PATH
    paths to extract; patterns are supported


optional arguments
    --list            output verbose list of items (files, dirs, ...)
    -n, --dry-run     do not actually change any files
    -e PATTERN, --exclude PATTERN    exclude paths matching PATTERN
    --exclude-from EXCLUDEFILE    read exclude patterns from EXCLUDEFILE, one per line
    --pattern PATTERN    experimental: include/exclude paths matching PATTERN
    --patterns-from PATTERNFILE    experimental: read include/exclude patterns from PATTERNFILE, one per line
    --numeric-owner    only obey numeric user and group identifiers
    --strip-components NUMBER    Remove the specified number of leading path elements. Pathnames with fewer elements will be silently skipped.
    --stdout          write all extracted data to stdout
    --sparse          create holes in output sparse file from all-zero chunks


.. class:: borg-common-opt-ref

:ref:`common_options`


Description
~~~~~~~~~~~

This command extracts the contents of an archive. By default the entire
archive is extracted but a subset of files and directories can be selected
by passing a list of ``PATHs`` as arguments. The file selection can further
be restricted by using the ``--exclude`` option.

See the output of the "borg help patterns" command for more help on exclude patterns.

By using ``--dry-run``, you can do all extraction steps except actually writing the
output data: reading metadata and data chunks from the repo, checking the hash/hmac,
decrypting, decompressing.

``--progress`` can be slower than no progress display, since it makes one additional
pass over the archive metadata.