Grep recursively through zipped files

Question

I have a set of zip files with multiple levels of directories in them. I want to find some content from a text file in one of those directories which can be in any of the zip files. If the files are unzipped, I would use the following

grep -r 'pattern' path

I tried using zgrep but it said that the option -r isn't supported. Is there a way to grep through the zipped files?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try with find command like:

find mydir -type f -name "*log.gz" -exec zgrep "pattern" {} \;

Above command will search for pattern in files named "*log.gz" residing in either mydir or sub directories within mydir.