RPMUNCOMPRESS(1) General Commands Manual RPMUNCOMPRESS(1)

rpmuncompress - RPM utility for compressed files and archives

rpmuncompress [options] FILE

rpmuncompress [options] [extract-options] {-x|--extract} ARCHIVE

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. The installation directory of rpmuncompress can be determined with rpm -E "%{_rpmconfigdir}".

FILE

A regular file, optionally compressed.

ARCHIVE

A tar(1), zip(1) or Ruby GEM archive. tar archives may be compressed.

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.

-n, --dry-run

Output the shell command that would be executed without this option.

-C PATH, --path=PATH

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

-v, --verbose

Provide verbose extraction output.

On success, 0 is returned, a nonzero failure code otherwise.

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.

rpmbuild(1), popt(3)

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2026-03-06 RPM 6.0.1