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

On Friday, September 14, 2012 12:06:41 PM UTC-5, sc wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:14:41PM -0400, ping wrote:
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> > assume I have a tar ball containing muliple files and I don't want
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> > to uncompress everything in a folder to start my search (since vim
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> > can open compressed/tar.ed files on the fly), is there way to search
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> > a keyword through all the files in the tarball?
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> do you have zgrep available? if so you can
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> zgrep 'pattern' tar-gz-file | vim -
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> sc

I didn't know about zgrep! But how about setting 'grepprg' to use it rather than grep? Then you can navigate results easier.

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