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Support searching thru compressed files #566

Closed nodakai closed 7 years ago

nodakai commented 9 years ago

It would be great if we could do something like this:

$ ack '^E' 2015*.log.gz
20150111.log.gz
25:ERROR
60:ERROR
20150222.log.gz
80:ERROR
120:ERROR
petdance commented 9 years ago

This has been on the to-do list forever. There's an issue for it already but I can't find it.

hoelzro commented 9 years ago

It's mentioned in #122.

petdance commented 8 years ago

What about tar archives? Zip files?

petdance commented 7 years ago

Closed and added to https://github.com/petdance/ack2/wiki/Feature-requests