(Mac) Search contents of Text file within ZIP

[dibbers006]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 12 December 2023 at 21:54

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Possibly agent ransack sorry didnt spot the mac bit

Edited by Trustmeimadoctor on Wednesday 22 April 13:13

[768]

unzip -c *.zip | grep something

Might be worth pushing into an elastic instance or similar though if it takes a long time to query over and you do it often.

[Mr Pointy]

Buy a PC & let Windows index the zip files so you can search them?

(only slightly not serious)

[eps]

How are your command line skills?

[robsa]

Mr Pointy said:

Buy a PC & let Windows index the zip files so you can search them?

(only slightly not serious)

No need.

grep -l [text to find] [files to look in]

So grep -l PistonHeads *.txt

Grep has options for case sensitivity and recursion

Although if it’s something simple finder will do it with a ‘find by content’ search.

[eps]

zipgrep to search inside zip files

[mattley]

What's the actual problem?

[mattley]

mattley said:

What's the actual problem?

dibbers006 said:

We've got automation software that routes files around the globe, processing along the way.

But due to the quantity of files and users, it's not always easy to see what issues occur, or where. Especially if they don't notice for a week that something is missing, or a file didn't make it to its destination.

I'm partly responsible for workflow. IT are infrastructure. Which can cause a disconnect.

Users aren't always tech savvy, and the different timezones all add to the high jinx!

So a legacy solution that doesn't scale well and no one's taking responsibility for the inevitable mess.

I can't answer your initial question, but I can offer some direction.

If you're only partly responsible for workflow you need to either be actually responsible for workflow and have the budget to implement a solution, or make someone else responsible for workflow so you can just get on with your job.


The solution is to centralise the data that's being passed around as documents and generally get a grip (i suspect you already know this) .

Also get an IT department that want to support innovation rather than legacy.