@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-extract \- Extract files or directories from a WIM image
.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ extract\fR \fIWIMFILE\fR \fIIMAGE\fR \fI[PATH\fR]... [\fIOPTION\fR]...
+\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ extract\fR \fIWIMFILE\fR \fIIMAGE\fR [\fIPATH\fR...] [\fIOPTION\fR...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
extract. See \fBPATH_SPECIFICATIONS\fR.
By default, files and directories are extracted to the current directory. Use
-\fB--dest-dir\fR to choose an alternate target directory.
+\fB--dest-dir\fR to choose an alternate target directory. Alternatively, use
+\fB--to-stdout\fR to extract a file to standard output to pipe into another
+program.
\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ extract\fR supports extracting files and directory trees
from stand-alone WIMs as well as split WIMs. See \fBSPLIT WIMS\fR.
When reading \fIWIMFILE\fR, verify its integrity if the integrity table is
present.
.TP
-\fB--verbose\fR
-Print the path to of each file or directory within the WIM image as it is
-extracted.
-.TP
\fB--ref\fR="\fIGLOB\fR"
File glob of additional split WIM parts that are part of the split WIM. See
\fBSPLIT_WIMS\fR.
.TP
+\fB--verbose\fR
+Print the path to of each file or directory within the WIM image as it is
+extracted.
+.TP
\fB--unix-data\fR
-Restore the UNIX-specific data captured using \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ capture\fR
-with the \fB--unix-data\fR option. This option is only available on UNIX.
+See the documentation for this option in \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-apply\fR (1).
.TP
\fB--no-acls\fR
-Do not restore security descriptors on extracted files and directories.
+See the documentation for this option in \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-apply\fR (1).
.TP
\fB--strict-acls\fR
-Fail immediately if the full security descriptor of any file or directory cannot
-be set exactly as specified in the WIM file. The default behavior without this
-option is to fall back to setting a security descriptor with the SACL omitted,
-then only the default inherited security descriptor, if we do not have
-permission to set the desired one.
+See the documentation for this option in \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-apply\fR (1).
.TP
\fB--to-stdout\fR
Extract the files to standard output instead of to the filesystem. This can
.SH NOTES
-\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ extract\fR calculates the SHA1 message digest of every file
-stream it extracts and verifies that it is the same as the SHA1 message digest
-provided in the WIM file. Thus, it should provide assurance of data integrity.
+See the documentation \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ apply\fR (1) for documentation about
+what data and metadata are extracted on UNIX versus on Windows.
+
+On UNIX, one can alternatively mount the WIM image with \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@
+mount\fR and then extract the desired files or directories using any standard
+command-line or graphical program.
Reparse-point fixups (a.k.a. changing absolute symbolic links and junctions to
point within the extraction location) are never done by \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@
Unlike \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ apply\fR, \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ extract\fR does not
support extracting files directly to a NTFS volume using libntfs-3g.
-Not all data and metadata contained in each WIM \fIPATH\fR will necessarily be
-extracted, since \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ extract\fR does the best it can given the
-platform (UNIX or Windows) and supported features of the filesystem. The
-documentation for \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ apply\fR (1) goes into more detail about
-what data and metadata is extracted and what is not.
-
.SH EXAMPLES
Extract a file from the first image in "boot.wim" to the current directory:
.RS
.BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-apply (1)
.BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-dir (1)
.BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-info (1)
+.BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-mount (1)
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