cpio/rpm2cpio commands
To extract a cpio file:
$ cpio -iv < cpio_file
To list the contents of a cpio file:
$ cpio -itv < cpio_file
To create a cpio file with all files in the current directory:
$ ls | cpio -o > cpio_file
To extract all files from an RPM:
$ rpm2cpio RPM_file | cpio -idv
To extract individual file(s) from an RPM:
$ rpm2cpio RPM_file | cpio -id individual_file(s)
e.g. Extracting libcrypto.so.0.9.7a
and libssl.so.0.9.7a from openssl-0.9.7a-2.i386.rpm:
$ rpm2cpio openssl-0.9.7a-2.i386.rpm | cpio -it egrep "libcrypto.so.0.9.7a|libssl.so.0.9.7a"
-rwxr-xr-x 1
root root
992092 Feb 27 12:10 ./lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7a
-rwxr-xr-x 1
root root
216004 Feb 27 12:10 ./lib/libssl.so.0.9.7a
$ rpm2cpio
openssl-0.9.7a-2.i386.rpm | cpio -idv ./lib/libssl.so.0.9.7a
./lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7a
This
will extract the two files from the RPM into a ./lib subdirectory.
To extract individual files from a Sun Flash Archive file:
1. Split the Flash Archive into the cookie,
identification, and archive files.
$ flar split Flash_Archive_file
2. Extract the file(s) from the cpio archive.
e.g. extracting var/sadm/install/contents
$ cpio -idv
var/sadm/install/contents < archive
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