[CentOS] How to extract one file from rpm using yum?

[Todd Rinaldo]

On Feb 1, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> The command line way of getting 1 file out of a rpm is to rpm2cpio.
>>>> 
>>>>     rpm2cpio <rpmfilename> > <filename.cpio>
>>>> 
>>>> Now you have a cpio archive which you can use to get files out of.
>>> Or:
>>> 
>>> rpm2cpio <rpmfilename> | cpio -idv
>>> 
> 
> And one more:
> 
> To extract a single file from a package
> 
> rpm2cpio gnupg-1.2.6-6.src.rpm | cpio -ivd gnupg.spec

I know it's petty, but every time I realize I need to use cpio to do this, it really annoys me. This is the only present day use of cpio I'm aware of.

Todd