rpm2cpio - Man Page

• Convert an RPM package to a cpio archive and save it as file.cpio in the current directory: rpm2cpio path/to/file.rpm

tldr.sh

rpm2cpio PACKAGE_FILE

rpm2cpio -

rpm2cpio converts the specified rpm package to a cpio(1) archive on the standard output.​

Note: the cpio(5) format cannot host individual files over 4GB in size, and so this tool is considered obsolete.​  Use rpm2archive(1) instead.​

PACKAGE_FILE

A binary or source RPM package.​

If dash (-) is given as the argument, data is read from the standard input.​

On success, 0 is returned, a nonzero failure code otherwise.​

rpm2cpio glint-1.​0-1.​i386.​rpm | cpio -dium

cat glint-1.​0-1.​i386.​rpm | rpm2cpio - | cpio -tv

cpio(1), rpm(8), rpm2archive(1)

rpm(8), rpm2archive(1), rpmbuild(1).