we3fan Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainyShadow Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 winrar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
we3fan Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 Thanks, I tried with WinRAR before but it gave me an error, I guess I need to use a more updated WinRAR version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumper Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Unless disabled (for speed), Explorer's built-in search also searches within zip files. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
we3fan Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 Thanks guys. Yes, jaclaz is right, I meant "compressed", I edited the 1st post to avoid confusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumper Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 A batch file could extract to a temp folder then search there.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
we3fan Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 Where can I find such a batch file for XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
we3fan Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 Thanks jaclaz, I will see what I can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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