I am working on SunOS 5.10. I have a folder that contains about 200 zip files. Each zip file contains only one text file in it. I would like to search for a specific string in all the text files in all the zip files.
I tried this (which searches for any text file in the zip file that contains the string "ORA-") but it didn't work.
zipgrep ORA-1680 *.zip
What is the correct of doing it without uncompressing the zip files?
It is in general not possible to search for content within a compressed file without uncompressing it one way or another. Since zipgrep is only a shellscript, wrapping unzip and egrep itself, you might just as well do it manually:
for file in *.zip; do unzip -c "$file" | grep "ORA-1680"; done
If you need just the list of matching zip files, you can use something like:
for file in *.zip; do
if ( unzip -c "$file" | grep -q "ORA-1680"); then
echo "$file"
fi
done
This way you are only decompressing to stdout (ie. to memory) instead of decompressing the files to disk. You can of course try to just grep -a the zip files but depending on the content of the file and your pattern, you might get false positives and/or false negatives.
unzip -c decompresses the file to stdout. It doesn't write the whole uncompressed file anywhere else.
– Noah
Aug 11 '11 at 12:40
zipgrep takes a single file. To make it work across multiple files put it in a loop:
for i in *.zip
do
zipgrep ORA-1680 "$i"
done
for i in *.zip; do zipgrep TextToSearch $i && echo $i; done
– baptx
Mar 02 '15 at 13:04
The AVFS filesystem presents a view of the filesystem where every archive file /path/to/foo.zip is accessible as a directory ~/.avfs/path/to/foo.zip#. It's a FUSE filesystem, which you can install on Solaris. AVFS provides read-only access to most common archive file formats.
mountavfs
for z in ~/.avfs$PWD/*.zip; do
find "$z#" -exec grep ORA-1680 {} +
done
fusermount -u ~/.avfs # optional
ugrep recursively searches zip, gz, tar, tgz, bz2, lz4, zstd, pax, cpio, and other types of compressed files and archives with option -z.
