| Summary: | Enable search for content in archives such as zip, tar archives etc. | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kfind | Reporter: | Carsten Klein <carstenklein> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bob53181 |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | RedHat Enterprise Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Carsten Klein
2005-03-29 16:35:45 UTC
Some comments on the proposed solution: a) make this a clickable option, i.e. Also search contents of archives... instead of making this the standard, as it is quite time-consuming. b) store the user-selection of whether or not she wishes to commit the search on also the archive contents in the corresponding configuration file. c) link the search results to the corresponding file inside the archive, possibly adding other optional options to the context menu of the search result, i.e. open archive, show archive where the file is located in etc. Well, that would be it. Looking at http://webcvs.kde.org/kdebase/kfind/kquery.cpp?rev=1.40, at least the KDE 3.4 version of KFind seems to provide the feature to search inside OASIS/OpenOffice documents. Great, how about extending this feature to all available file types that could be found within archives like for example binary data? I have not checked the 3.4 release yet, since this would mean a major overhaul (and tear-down) of an otherwise working system. Looking out for stable Fedora Core 4 then... I cannot find an option in KFind to search inside archive contents. I tried providing an archive as the location to search but it returned an error. This could be implemented using deepfind. Currently I have to use a script with
find $1 -name "$2" | xargs -I {} deepfind {} | grep $3
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