zipgrep - search files in a ZIP archive for lines matching a pattern
zipgrep [egrep_options] pattern file[.zip] [file(s) ...] [-x xfile(s) ...]
ZIPGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZIPGREP(1)
NAME
zipgrep - search files in a ZIP archive for lines matching a pattern
SYNOPSIS
zipgrep [egrep_options] pattern file[.zip] [file(s) ...]
[-x xfile(s) ...]
DESCRIPTION
zipgrep will search files within a ZIP archive for lines matching the
given string or pattern. zipgrep is a shell script and requires
egrep(1) and unzip(1L) (and basename(1), grep(1), od(1), and sed(1)) to
function. Its output is generally similar to that of egrep(1).
ARGUMENTS
pattern
The pattern to be located within a ZIP archive. Any string or
regular expression accepted by egrep(1) may be used. file[.zip]
Path of the ZIP archive. (Wildcard expressions for the ZIP ar-
chive name are not supported.) If the specified filename is not
found, then UnZip (not the zipgrep script itself) appends the
suffix .zip to the name, and tries again. Note that self-
extracting ZIP files are supported, as with any other ZIP ar-
chive; just specify the .exe (or any other) suffix explicitly.
[file(s)]
An optional list of archive members to be processed, separated
by spaces. If no member files are specified, then all members
of the ZIP archive are searched. Regular expressions (wild-
cards) may be used to match multiple members:
* matches a sequence of 0 or more characters
? matches exactly 1 character
[...] matches any single character found inside the brackets;
ranges are specified by a beginning character, a hyphen,
and an ending character. If an exclamation point or a
caret (`!' or `^') follows the left bracket, then the
range of characters within the brackets is complemented
(that is, anything except the characters inside the
brackets is considered a match).
Be sure to quote any character(s) that might otherwise be inter-
preted or modified by the operating system or shell.
[-x xfile(s)]
An optional list of archive members to be excluded from process-
ing. Because wildcard characters match directory separators
("/"), this option may be used to exclude any files that are in
subdirectories. For example, "zipgrep grumpy foo *.[ch] -x */*"
would search for the string "grumpy" in all C source files in
the main directory of the "foo[.zip]" archive, but none in any
subdirectories. Without the -x option, all C source files (in
all directories) within the archive would be searched.
OPTIONS
All options prior to the ZIP archive filename are passed to egrep(1).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | compress/unzip |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
egrep(1), unzip(1L), zip(1L), funzip(1L), zipcloak(1L), zipinfo(1L),
zipnote(1L), zipsplit(1L)
URL
The Info-ZIP main Web page is:
http://www.info-zip.org/
FTP access is available, too:
ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/
AUTHORS
zipgrep was written by Jean-loup Gailly and others in the Info-ZIP
group.
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://antinode.info/ftp/info-
zip/unzip610c25.zip.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html.
Info-ZIP 25 January 2013 ZIPGREP(1)