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How to grep a bz2 file that is further under a zip folder - Ex: I have a work.zip folder inside which i got a couple of XXX.bz2 files which have a pattern i am searching for. I want to avoid unzipping the parent folder, is there a way?

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  • If you are searching for names, zip -sf work.zip will give you that, but if you want to search for contents, you're going to have to unzip the archive Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 3:53
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    unzip -p archive.zip | bzgrep 'regex'? Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 6:29

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Try ugrep with options -z and --zmax=2 to search 2 dearchiving/decompression levels deep, such as grepping bz2 files in a zip file.

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