Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.0) Installed from: RedHat RPMs OS: Linux Consider OpenOffice documents. These are stored within zip archives. However, it is seemingly not possible to search for a string in an archive beyond the simple filename of a file contained within that archive, i.e. the content of the file itself is not searched at all. Please do implement this feature and we could overcome G**GLES or anybody elses desktop search products, in order to keep our system safe and free from any spying ware. Thanks and Best Regards, Carsten
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