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As the name implies, rpm2cpio takes an RPM package file and converts it to a cpio archive. Because it's written to be used primarily as a filter, there's not much to be specified. rpm2cpio takes only only one argument.

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rpm2cpio php-pdo-5.1.6-24.el5_4.5.i386.rpm| cpio -idmv

./etc/php.d/pdo.ini
./etc/php.d/pdo_sqlite.ini
./usr/lib/php/modules/pdo.so
./usr/lib/php/modules/pdo_sqlite.so
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Output of rpm2cpio piped to cpio command with following options:
i: Restore archive
d: Create leading directories where needed
m: Retain previous file modification times when creating files
v: Verbose i.e. display progress

Verify that you have extracted an RPM file in current directory:

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ls

etc php-pdo-5.1.6-24.el5_4.5.i386.rpm usr