man 8 rpm2cpio

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

NAME
       rpm2cpio - Extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package.

SYNOPSIS
       rpm2cpio [filename]

DESCRIPTION
       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
       rpm(8)

AUTHOR
       Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> 

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