#AskFedi #Linux
Is there a tool like 'ls' to recursively list all files and folders INCLUDING the files and folders within compressed (zip,cab,tar,rar, all, any) archives BUT WITHOUT actually decompressing those archives?
MyDir
+ MyFile
+ MyCompressedArchive
+ + MyFileInsideCompressedArchive
+ + MyFolderInsideCompressedFolder
+ + + MyFileInsdeCompressedFolder
I would like to list all of the previous with path included. Is scripting the only option?
afreytes, 👻 of 🎄⌛
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I have 90% of a solution worked out in a python script...
Now I only need to find the time to work out the other 180% of the solution...
Aaron
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Oblomov
in reply to afreytes, 👻 of 🎄⌛ • • •Aaron
in reply to Oblomov • • •I think python's zipfile module will let you list the contents without extracting them; it's in the metadata.
Aaron
in reply to Aaron • • •Now for all the other compression/tarball formats! 😀
afreytes, 👻 of 🎄⌛
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@hosford42 @oblomov I think that if there are modules that work similar to zipfile then I can do it.
This already covers like 85% of my use case. I will try other compression formats if it's feasible for me.
Otherwise... I'm not smart enough to come up with my own list-files-in-any-compressed-format algorithm 😇
plan-A
in reply to afreytes, 👻 of 🎄⌛ • •github.com/laktak/zfind/
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