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


thanks

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.


Cheers,
Tink

Redhat and Fedora have zgrep.