How to use grep command on zip files

Question

I want to grep for today's date from zip file. How can do this?

I have a zip file called sen2616.z I want to get all the data for today's date 09.02.2014

Answer 1

In my case zgrep didn't work on a normal .zip file. I had to use zipgrep instead.

Answer 2

Please use zipgrep .

zgrep is for gz files, not for zip files.

Answer 3

You can use zgrep to get what you want, with:

zgrep '09.02.2014' myfile.zip

See man zgrep for more info.

Answer 4

zipgrep will work with zip files only. If you want to grep all files, not only zipped files, then you could use ugrep , which allows to do that with -z flag.