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How do you search for strings in a file which in turn is in an archive?

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Mar 15, 20266509 views

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I can search through a number of files for a particular string by pipelining 'grep' and 'find' commands. Now, I have some 10 zip files each of which has archived a lot of text files. Is there any way I could search for a string in all text files archived in all those zip files without extracting th…

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You can also use zipgrep command that is included with unzip package. For example: This command gives you matched file names inside the archives as well.

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How do you search for strings in a file which in turn is in an archive?

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