how to get a specfile from an RPM

[Ed Greshko]

Jos Vos wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:16:36AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
>> And you can do it simply by...
>>
>> rpm2cpio whatever-package.src.rpm | cpio -i *spec
> 
> Correct, but better quote it (use '*.spec'), as there might be files
> matching *spec in your current directory and then it mostly won't
> work as expected ;-).

I don't think the quotes are needed, although they couldn't hurt.  The *spec
is a parameter to cpio telling it what files to extract so I don't think
having another .spec in your directory will hurt.  In fact, I tried it both
quoted and unquoted with another spec file in my current directory and the
results are the same.  Care to share your concern?