RPM2CPIO(1)                 General Commands Manual                RPM2CPIO(1)

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

SYNOPSIS
       rpm2cpio PACKAGE_FILE

       rpm2cpio -

DESCRIPTION
       rpm2cpio converts the specified rpm package to a cpio(1) archive on the
       standard output.

       Note: the cpio(5) format cannot host individual files over 4GB in size,
       and so this tool is considered obsolete.  Use rpm2archive(1) instead.

ARGUMENTS
       PACKAGE_FILE
           A binary or source RPM package.

       If dash (-) is given as the argument, data is read from the standard
       input.

EXIT STATUS
       On success, 0 is returned, a nonzero failure code otherwise.

EXAMPLES
       rpm2cpio glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | cpio -dium
           Extract glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm contents relative to current
           directory.

       cat glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | rpm2cpio - | cpio -tv
           View glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm file list with cpio(1).

SEE ALSO
       cpio(1), rpm(8), rpm2archive(1)

RPM 6.0.1                         2026-03-06                       RPM2CPIO(1)