rpm2cpio(8) — Linux manual page

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rpm2cpio(8)                System Manager's Manual               rpm2cpio(8)

NAME top

       rpm2cpio  - Extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) pack‐
       age.

SYNOPSIS top

       rpm2cpio [filename]

DESCRIPTION top

       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 top

       rpm(8)

AUTHOR top

       Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

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Red Hat, Inc.                  11 January 2001                   rpm2cpio(8)

Pages that refer to this page: rpm2archive(8) , rpm(8) , rpmbuild(8) , rpmdb(8) , rpmkeys(8) , rpmsign(8) , rpmspec(8)