On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:24:20 -0500, Warp wrote:

>   At least here 'less' (/usr/bin/less) will show the contents of
>   packages
> (such as rpms, tarballs (packed or not), etc.) as a listing of the files
> inside. 'less' is very smart in that regard.

Yes, that's because of the setting in the default shell environment of 
LESSOPEN which tells LESS how to deal with files with specific extensions.

But for me, I was extracting individual packages which is why I turned to 
rpm2cpio and then extracted with cpio.

Jim

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