rpm2cpio(1)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES

NAME

rpm2cpio– convert Red Hat Package (RPM) to cpio archive

SYNOPSIS

rpm2cpio [file.rpm]

DESCRIPTION

The rpm2cpio utility converts the .rpm file specified as its sole argument to a cpio archive on standard output. (See NOTES.) If no argument is given, an rpm stream is read from standard input. In both cases, rpm2cpio will fail and print a usage message if the standard output is a terminal. Therefore, the output is usually redirected to a file or piped through the cpio(1) utility.

EXAMPLES

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Example 1 Converting an rpm file




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example% rpm2cpio Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv CPIO archive found! -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2635 Sep 13 16:39 1998, 3dfx.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11339 Sep 27 16:03 1998, Dev3Dfx.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Sep 27 16:04 1998, Device3Dfx-1.1-2.spec 31 blocks

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Example 2 Converting from standard input




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example% rpm2cpio < Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv CPIO archive found! -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2635 Sep 13 16:39 1998, 3dfx.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11339 Sep 27 16:03 1998, Dev3Dfx.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Sep 27 16:04 1998, Device3Dfx-1.1-2.spec 31 blocks

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ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWrpm

SEE ALSO

cpio(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

rpm2cpio handles versions 3 and 4 RPMs.

SunOS 5.9  Last Revised 20 Aug 2001

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES