Extract tree from cpio archive

Question

I have an RPM contaning files in ./var/lib which I need to extract onto my filesystem on a Debian machine. I'm trying to do this:

rpm2cpio myrpm.rpm | cpio -ivd ./var/lib

Nothis is extracted. If I specify the full path to the exact file which I want, I get it, but I need to extract the entire tree.

How can I extract the entire tree (ie: all files within a directory in the RPM) to the local filesystem?

Answer 1

I was ultimately able to do it using something like this:

rpm2cpio myrpm.rpm | cpio -ivd './var/lib/**/*'