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 [filename]

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.

Note: the CPIO format cannot host individual files over 4GB in size, and so this tool is considered obsolete. Use rpm2archive instead.

rpm2cpio glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | cpio -dium

cat glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | rpm2cpio - | cpio -tv

rpm(8) rpm2archive(8)

Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

rpm(8), rpm2archive(8), rpmbuild(8), rpmdb(8), rpmfile(1), rpmkeys(8), rpmpeek(1), rpmsign(8), rpmspec(8), unrpm(1).