Add Find under edit or CTRL-F for text search in an archive
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#1529 Add Find under edit or CTRL-F for text search in an archive
I use 7-zip windows a lot to peruse jar files looking for class paths that are buried very deep sometimes. it would be a handy feature to be able to do a text search and get a result list of locations/files where that text is found. for instance im looking at htmlunit-3.52.0.jar if i was to search for "cache" i would expect back a list containing \com\gargoylesoftware\htmlunit\cache.class plus anywhere else it might be.
Just a thought because i was really looking for that a few minutes ago and was surprised 7-zip did not have some type of search capability in an archive. Hence the feature request ..
Such a feature will most probably never implemented, because the 7z format on its own is highly compacted to such an extent that it would result in decompressing everything anyway. Other formats (such as PKZip used for your JARs) may be better at this, tho.
So far I only know RAR as archiver has such a feature.
I was only suggesting what is plain text in the archive ..what the UI would show if you opened a folder not unpacking the whole archive anymore then you already do. file names, paths that type of info..