rpm2cpio
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 11 January 2001
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NAME
rpm2cpio - Extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package.
SYNOPSIS
rpm2cpio [filename]
DESCRIPTION
rpm2cpio converts the .rpm file specified as a single argument
to a cpio archive on standard out. If a '-' argument is given, an rpm stream
is read from standard in.
rpm2cpio glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | cpio -dium
cat glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | rpm2cpio - | cpio -tv
SEE ALSO
rpm(8)
AUTHOR
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>