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04/02/2007 2:14 pm
Hi,
I'm about to write a script for automating the process of searching strings (or regexp) into files contained in compressed archives.
Do some of you know if there is some tool that already address this issue?
Thanks for your answers
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rukin
06/02/2007 7:01 am
This is usually not possible, since the data that a specific string compresses to depends on the text before the string.
The exception would be a huffan compressed document where you know the FIXED huffam table. But even then you will have to deal with bit boundary encodings.
Nik
06/02/2007 9:47 am
> Do some of you know if there is some tool that already address this issue?
Any tool would have to first decompress the files, then search them.