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.TH rpm2cpio 1 "20 Aug 2001" "SunOS 5.12" "User Commands"

.SH NAME

rpm2cpio \- convert Red Hat Package (RPM) to cpio archive

.SH SYNOPSIS

.LP

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\fBrpm2cpio\fR [\fIfile\fR.rpm]

.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION

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.LP

The \fBrpm2cpio\fR utility converts the \fB\&.rpm\fR file specified as its sole argument to a \fBcpio\fR archive on standard output. (See NOTES.) If no argument is given, an rpm stream is read from standard input. In both cases, \fBrpm2cpio\fR 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 \fBcpio\fR(1) utility.

.SH EXAMPLES

.LP

\fBExample 1 \fRConverting an rpm file

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.in +2

.nf

example% \fBrpm2cpio Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv\fR

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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.in -2

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.LP

\fBExample 2 \fRConverting from standard input

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.in +2

.nf

example% \fBrpm2cpio < Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv\fR

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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.in -2

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.SH ATTRIBUTES

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.LP

See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

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.TS

tab() box;

cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 

lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 

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ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE

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Availabilitypackage/rpm

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.SH SEE ALSO

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.LP

\fBcpio\fR(1), \fBattributes\fR(5)

.SH NOTES

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\fBrpm2cpio\fR handles versions 3 and 4 \fBRPM\fRs.