rpm2cpio(8)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, the manual is rpm2cpio(8) and her whole thing is to Extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package. ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

how do you even call her? like this:

rpm2cpio [filename]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so real talk: 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 bestie: the CPIO format cannot host individual files over 4GB in size, and so this tool is considered obsolete. Use rpm2archive instead. no cap, she's a legacy icon but not the one you want for big files.

examples, because we love a demo:

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

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read these too, bestie:

• rpm(8)
• rpm2archive(8)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this iconic human wrote it: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> 💖

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xoxo, your fav manual page 💅 — this is the rpm2cpio(8) manual, dated 11 January 2001.