How to unpack specific directory from /home backup packed with pigz+tar+gzip

Question

Normally I'm extracting my copies with:

pigz -dc backup2_week1_system.tar.gz | tar xzvf -

Now I want to unpack specific directory from /home/user for example admin

Answer 1

pigz -dc backup2_week1_system.tar.gz | tar vxf - FILE

where FILE is the file to extract. For example

pigz -dc backup2_week1_system.tar.gz | tar vxf - bob

Will extract the bob directory (e.g. /home/bob) from backup2_week1_system.tar.gz. Note that you don't need the z flag because pigz will already decompress the gzip'd portion.