[CentOS] How to extract one file from rpm using yum?

Thu Jan 31 16:40:48 UTC 2013
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

On 01/31/2013 11:36 AM, John Doe wrote:
> From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
>
>> I want to get the original version of /etc/clamd.d/amavis.conf from the
>> amavisd-new rpm to get the defaults to submit a bug report.  I could not
>> figure out how to do this, so I did a reinstall, but it did not replace
>> this file (whatprovides says it comes from this rpm).
>> Is there a way to extract just the one file, and better yet, place it
>> elsewhere than its regular destination?
> You could also just have renamed your conf file temporarily,
> reinstalled, moved the default conf file and renamed back
> your conf file...

OK.  I am set for what I needed.  I went to the repo via http and 
downloaded the rpm.  I then used archive manager via nautilus to get to 
the file(s) I needed.  Now to write up the bug report.  Minor item, but 
it bugs me.... ;)