How to search for a file in war,ear and jar files recursively in Linux

Question

I need to search for a file (logo.png), in a folder that contains war, ear, and jar archive files. Can anyone help me with the command?

Use this command in terminal ------> find [PATH] -name "[FILENAME]" — BDRSuite, May 11 '15 at 15:09

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

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Searching inside jar files:

find . -name \*.jar -exec sh -c 'printf "\n\nFile: {}"; jar tf {}' ";" | less +/foo

And similar with war files:

find . -name \*.war -exec sh -c 'printf "\n\nFile: {}"; unzip -l {}' ";" | less +/foo

Change foo with text of your interest (such as abc.png).

You can press:

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

Community

answered May 11 '15 at 16:01

kenorb

if i need to search abc.png file in a war archive how can i do with the above command. – ashok_p May 11 '15 at 17:17
@ashok_p Replace `Foo` with `abc.png`. – kenorb May 11 '15 at 18:47

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 11 '15 at 15:29

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You can use unzip command for this purpose:

unzip -t example.war |grep filename

answered May 11 '15 at 15:29

Romeo Ninov

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 17 '18 at 19:06

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jar tvf foo.war | grep filename

answered Jul 17 '18 at 19:06

l33tHax0r

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While this bit of code may be correct, the lack of ANY contextualizing information makes this answer useless and unhelpful. – music2myear Jul 17 '18 at 20:57

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