Find text string in folder with more zipped files

[we3fan]

Hi guys, let's say I have a folder with 10 compressed files (RAR, 7-Zip), and there are some text files inside these compressed files, and I want to find a word or phrase inside these text files. What program is best to use on XP if I want to search the whole folder to find a word or phrase inside the compressed files?

Thanks for your time.

Edited June 12, 2020 by we3fan

[RainyShadow]

winrar

[we3fan]

Thanks, I tried with WinRAR before but it gave me an error, I guess I need to use a more updated WinRAR version.

[jumper]

Unless disabled (for speed), Explorer's built-in search also searches within zip files.

 

[jaclaz]

17 minutes ago, jumper said:

Unless disabled (for speed), Explorer's built-in search also searches within zip files.

 

Sure, but not in .rar and .7z ones, my guess is that by "zipped" OP actually meant "compressed" (in either RAR or 7-Zip formats).

jaclaz

[we3fan]

Thanks guys.

Yes, jaclaz is right, I meant "compressed", I edited the 1st post to avoid confusion.

[jumper]

A batch file could extract to a temp folder then search there....

 

[jaclaz]

5 hours ago, jumper said:

A batch file could extract to a temp folder then search there....

 

Yep , and I believe that all tools capable of doing these searches use this or a very similar approach "under the hood", possibly they are faster, but the data needs anyway to be decompressed *somewhere* to be searched.

jaclaz

[we3fan]

Where can I find such a batch file for XP?

[jaclaz]

28 minutes ago, we3fan said:

Where can I find such a batch file for XP?

You cannot, you write one.

You can find examples and snippets, but invariably you will need to modify them to suit your needs, a few examples:
https://cects.com/using-the-winrar-command-line-tools-in-windows/

https://cects.com/automate-compression-tasks-cli/

https://superuser.com/questions/371384/extract-all-zips-in-a-directory-incl-subfolders-with-a-bat-file-or-dos-comm

It depends of course which "base" tool you want to use, 7-zip, RAR or - say - Peazip:

https://www.peazip.org/peazip-free-archiver.html

I had a look around and it does exist a Commercial tool that seemingly does what you want, but it isn't exactly cheap:
https://www.powergrep.com/

and probably does too much.

There is this free one:

https://dngrep.github.io/

but it is .Net  and Windows 7 up.

jaclaz

 

[we3fan]

Thanks jaclaz, I will see what I can do.