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justice

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Search archives
« on: December 05, 2007, 09:55 AM »
I've made backups of gigs worth of webdevelopment related files and now I need to search through all of them (they're on several locations on the corporate network). They're in ZIP and RAR format. What's the best way to do this?
  • I was considering setting up a desktop search program on our development server and have it index all. Is there a better way?
search archives doesn't really help me. :(
  • Unpacking them all in their own folder is an option but can't say I'd like the prospect of that although then I can use locate.
  • I can convert all .rar files to .zip so windows own search can look through them, that is probably a good idea even if i go with a desktop search.

« Last Edit: December 05, 2007, 10:02 AM by justice »

kimmchii

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Re: Search archives
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2007, 10:23 AM »
i use ZipScan for archives search.

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Ralf Maximus

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Re: Search archives
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2007, 02:39 PM »
Archivarius searches within every known archive format, and many I've never heard of. 

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Lashiec

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Re: Search archives
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2007, 05:23 PM »
WinRAR has its own search function as well.

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