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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.

ARGUMENTS

FILE

A regular file, optionally compressed.

ARCHIVE

A tar(1), zip(1), CAR or Ruby GEM file. 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.

See rpm-common(8) for options common to all rpm executables.

EXTRACT OPTIONS

-C PATH, --path=PATH

Extract into to PATH regardless of the archive's internal layout.

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

rpm-common(8), rpmbuild(1), popt(3)

http://www.rpm.org/

2026-08-20 RPM 6.1.0