Extract CPIO archive from RPM package. rpm2cpio converts the RPM on standard input or first parameter to a CPIO archive on standard output.
Quick installation:
curl -RO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ruda/rpm2cpio/master/rpm2cpio.py
chmod +x rpm2cpio.py
Usage:
rpm2cpio.py < adjtimex-1.20-2.1.i386.rpm | cpio -it
./sbin/adjtimex
./usr/share/doc/adjtimex-1.20
./usr/share/doc/adjtimex-1.20/COPYING
./usr/share/doc/adjtimex-1.20/COPYRIGHT
./usr/share/doc/adjtimex-1.20/README
./usr/share/man/man8/adjtimex.8.gz
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