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Sugestion - Add search in archives switch and functionality to find


From: Tim Milstead
Subject: Sugestion - Add search in archives switch and functionality to find
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:53:18 +0000
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I know it's an addition of a big concept but it would be really useful if find had a --searcharchives swtich that searched in archives and returns paths with the archive in. e.g.:

cd /
find . --searcharchives -name remorse -print

returns:

/home/tim/test/my_archive.zip/base/deep/remorse.txt

Other applications would have to be adapted to accept the input. xargs and grep being at the top of the list.

Really useful for searching for class files in jar archives or files in backups e.g. tar files.

Tim.




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