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How to do the equivalent of "grep something * -Rin" on list of tar.gz files?
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Mar 15, 20263138 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've got a bunch of tar.gz files and I want to do a "grep something * -Rin" as I would on them if they weren't tar.gzed. I want to keep them tar.gzed as they are, but grep on them on-the-fly and find the occurrences of my grep with the prefixed file and line number. Something like: and get somethin…
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zgrep (or, we believe, grep with the -Z flag) will let you grep the compressed files and I think will tell you much of what you want, but this doesn't give you the filename without a bit more work looking at the header :(
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