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From: oovvoo@mixcom.COM (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: string search through files in ZIP-archives possible ?
Message-ID: <355@mixcom.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 91 14:17:36 GMT
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IUL@DACTH51.BITNET writes:

>Does anybody know a program to find occurences of text strings in a
>ZIP-archive containing text files ?  I am looking for a utility which
>gives the whole line of text (the line containing the search string),
>and which scans through all text files contained in the archive.

If you have a program that can "grep" for text via standard input, you could
do a "PKUNZIP -c zipfile", which would extract the contents of the file to
the console, and then pipe the data to your stdin-grepper.  Unfortunately,
because of the way that MS-DOS treats pipes (i.e., they are temporary files
on the disk), this might not work the way you'd like.  Does this approach
(or something similar to it) make sense?

	- Mike
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