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

On 09/14/12 12:10, Ben Fritz wrote:
> 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:
>>> 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 -
>
> I didn't know about zgrep! But how about setting 'grepprg' to use
> it rather than grep? Then you can navigate results easier.

Does it work for you with gzipped tar files? I know you can use
zgrep for plain (non-tar'ed) gzipped files, but when I try it on a
gzipped tar file, it only tells me that a binary file matches:

~$ cd tmp
~/tmp$ mkdir d
~/tmp$ cd d
~/tmp/d$ echo alpha > a.txt
~/tmp/d$ echo beta > b.txt
~/tmp/d$ echo delta > d.txt
~/tmp/d$ cd ..
~/tmp$ tar cvfz d.tgz d/
d/
d/a.txt
d/d.txt
d/b.txt
~/tmp$ zgrep alpha d.tgz
Binary file (standard input) matches

-tim




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