RPMUNCOMPRESS(1)            General Commands Manual           RPMUNCOMPRESS(1)

NAME
       rpmuncompress - RPM utility for compressed files and archives

SYNOPSIS
       rpmuncompress [options] FILE

       rpmuncompress [options] [extract-options] {-x|--extract} ARCHIVE

DESCRIPTION
       rpmuncompress is a utility for transparently outputting compressed and
       uncompressed files, and extracting archives.

       It's normally invoked internally by rpmbuild(1) to handle %setup and
       %patch related tasks in spec files, but can be useful manually invoked
       as well. The installation directory of rpmuncompress can be determined
       with rpm -E "%{_rpmconfigdir}".

ARGUMENTS
       FILE
           A regular file, optionally compressed.

       ARCHIVE
           A tar(1), zip(1) or Ruby GEM archive. tar archives may be
           compressed.

OPERATIONS
       By default, rpmuncompress outputs FILE to standard output similar to
       cat(1), but transparently decompressing many popular compression
       formats, similar to zcat(1).

       -x, --extract
           Extract the ARCHIVE passed as argument into the current directory,
           transparently uncompressing tar(1) archives if needed.

OPTIONS
       -n, --dry-run
           Output the shell command that would be executed without this
           option.

EXTRACT OPTIONS
       -C PATH, --path=PATH
           Extract into to PATH regardless of the archive's internal layout.

       -v, --verbose
           Provide verbose extraction output.

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

EXAMPLES
       rpmuncompress /tmp/3911.patch.gz | patch -p1
           Uncompress and output /tmp/3911.patch.gz, similar to zcat(1), and
           pipe to patch(1).

       rpmuncompress -x myproject.zip
           Extract myproject.zip archive into the current directory.

       rpmuncompress -x -C myproject myproject-1.0.7rc1.tar.gz
           Uncompress and extract myproject-1.0.7rc1.tar.gz archive into
           myproject directory, regardless of it's internal structure.

SEE ALSO
       rpmbuild(1), popt(3)

       http://www.rpm.org/

RPM 6.0.1                         2026-03-06                  RPMUNCOMPRESS(1)