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Old 05-23-2005, 04:09 PM   #1
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grep search in zip/rar... etc

is there a way to specify/configure/patch grep to be able to include archive files in it's searching?

it would be nice for zip, rar, gz/tar-gz ...etc


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Nope.

You'd have to write a script-wrapper that uses e.g.
gunzip, bzcat, tar tvf, ... respectively, and pipe the
results of those to grep.


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Old 05-23-2005, 06:05 PM   #3
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Redhat and Fedora have zgrep.
 
  


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