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 ouput.

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 non-zero 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).