It ignores all directory entries from the archive and doesn't create any implicit directories either. Implicit directories are directories without an explicit entry that occurs in the path of other files. Thus extract will only work for "flat" archives (unless the directory structure is already present).
It ignores all directory entries from the archive and doesn't create any implicit directories either. Implicit directories are directories without an explicit entry that occurs in the path of other files. Thus extract will only work for "flat" archives (unless the directory structure is already present).