RPMUNCOMPRESS(1)
2025-10-06
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 outputing 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. The installation directory of rpmuncompress can be determined with rpm -E "%{_rpmconfigdir}".
ARGUMENTS
FILE
A regular file, optionally compressed.
ARCHIVE
A tar(1), zip(1) or Ruby GEM archive. 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.
EXTRACT OPTIONS
-C PATH, --path=PATH
Extract into to PATH regardless of the archive's internal layout.
-v, --verbose
Provide verbose extraction output.
EXIT STATUS
On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero 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
rpmbuild(1), popt(3)