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NAME

rpm2cpio − convert Red Hat Package (RPM) to cpio archive

SYNOPSIS

rpm2cpio [file.rpm]

DESCRIPTION

The rpm2cpio utility converts the .rpm file specified as its sole argument to a cpio archive on standard output. (See NOTES.) If no argument is given, an rpm stream is read from standard input. In both cases, rpm2cpio will fail and print a usage message if the standard output is a terminal. Therefore, the output is usually redirected to a file or piped through the cpio(1) utility.

EXAMPLES

Example 1: Converting an rpm file

example% rpm2cpio Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv

CPIO archive found!
-rw-r--r--   1 root  root    2635 Sep 13 16:39 1998, 3dfx.gif
-rw-r--r--   1 root  root   11339 Sep 27 16:03 1998, Dev3Dfx.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root  root    1387 Sep 27 16:04 1998, Device3Dfx-1.1-2.spec
31 blocks

Example 2: Converting from standard input

example% rpm2cpio < Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv

CPIO archive found!
-rw-r--r--   1 root  root    2635 Sep 13 16:39 1998, 3dfx.gif
-rw-r--r--   1 root  root   11339 Sep 27 16:03 1998, Dev3Dfx.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root  root    1387 Sep 27 16:04 1998, Device3Dfx-1.1-2.spec
31 blocks

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

SEE ALSO

cpio(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

rpm2cpio handles versions 3 and 4 RPMs.