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The module v.extract extracts vector geometries and attributes from a map and saves them as a new map. In the following example the political border of the Federal State Lower Saxony is extracted from the map pol_borders:
v.extract in=pol_borders out=pol_borders_nds type=area new=-1 \ where="nam='NIEDERSACHSEN'"
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