Find a file in lots of zip files (like find command for directories)

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I need to search for a file in all zip files in a directory.

Is there a tool like find that be able to search in ZIP files?

I tried this:

find /path/ -iname '*.zip' -print -exec unzip -l {} \; |grep -i '<filename>'

But this only prints path of file in zip file and not the zip file name itself!

Thanks

for f in *.zip; do echo "$f: "; less $f | grep <filename>; done, according to: https://superuser.com/questions/216617/view-list-of-files-in-zip-archive-on-linux — Mladen B., Jun 25 '22 at 16:36

score 36 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 09 '20 at 23:54

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Try:

for f in *.zip; do echo "$f: "; unzip -l $f | grep <filename>; done

edited Mar 09 '20 at 23:54

Paulo Tomé

answered Aug 08 '12 at 23:08

tripledes

Hi; Thanks; Your command makes lots of mass output (because of file date,... that ls prints)! but changing it to this solved the problem: for f in *.zip; do echo "$f: "; unzip -l $f | grep -i <file_name>; done Thank you again. – Ariyan Aug 08 '12 at 23:31
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for f in *.zip; do unzip -l $f | grep && echo $f; done ... Better this way ? :) – tripledes Aug 08 '12 at 23:34
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;' – mjaggard Sep 29 '15 at 11:24
Also fails on filenames with a space in them if I put the code into a script – mjaggard Sep 29 '15 at 11:30
the same thing , but IMHO more user-friendly : while read -r zip_file ; do echo $zip_file ; unzip -l $zip_file | grep -i --color=always -R $to_srch; done < <(find . -name '*.zip') | less -R – Yordan Georgiev Sep 23 '16 at 06:25
Just recommend to set unzip -l "$f" with quotation marks so there is no issue with files with spaces... – wittich Mar 16 '22 at 13:36

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