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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find command with -exec Post 302309920 by lavascript on Thursday 23rd of April 2009 08:36:03 AM
Old 04-23-2009
Do you mean in the filename itself or within the actual compress file?

If you mean just the filename then :-

Code:
find *3800078163033*.Z

should work.

If you mean within the file then i'm not sure if there's an equivalent as below for files compressed with compress but if they were gzipped or bzipped there is bzcat and gzcat so you could do :-

Code:
string="3800078163033"

for file *.Z
do
   if [[ -n "$(gzcat $file | grep $string)" ]];then
       echo "File [$file] contains string [$string]"
   fi
done

 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep is used to invoke the grep on compress'ed or gzip'ed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is speci- fied, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If zgrep is invoked as zegrep or zfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. For example: for sh: GREP=fgrep zgrep string files for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; zgrep string files) AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), zdiff(1), zmore(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1) ZGREP(1)
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