[CentOS] Slackware's 'explodepkg' equivalent for rpm?

[Ralph Angenendt]

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any 'explodepkg' equivalent for the rpm command? What I want is  
> simply uncompress an RPM package to get the files directly, but I didn't  
> find anything in rpm's manpage.

rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories

*DO NOT RUN THAT IN /*

Cheers,

Ralph
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