summary: [ale] rpm single file extract

[srobertson at bcbs-ga.com (Scott Robertson)]

For those of you that may need to know, this is what work for us here:

rpm2cpio tcl-8.0.2-16.i386.rpm | cpio -icduv *libtcl.so

Thanks to all whom responded:
Chris Adams
Ray Knight
Fletch
Steve DuChene

I wrote:

> Being a slackware user, I am not all that familiar with rpm.  I was
> posed a question by a friend as to extracting one file from an rpm
> distribution.  The man page does not cover single file extraction, nor
> the HOWTO.  Is this function available?, or will it be a full extraction
> to an alternate directory and then copy the file in question?

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Scott Robertson
Unix Systems Administrator
BlueCross BlueShield of Georgia
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