Friday, September 14, 2012

Re: vim: how to search a pattern through all files in a compressed file (e.g. a tar.gz ball)?

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:14:41PM -0400, ping wrote:
> assume I have a tar ball containing muliple files and I don't want
> to uncompress everything in a folder to start my search (since vim
> can open compressed/tar.ed files on the fly), is there way to search
> a keyword through all the files in the tarball?

do you have zgrep available? if so you can

zgrep 'pattern' tar-gz-file | vim -

sc

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