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

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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, 2015 at 15:09

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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).

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answered May 11, 2015 at 16:01

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if i need to search abc.png file in a war archive how can i do with the above command.
– ashok_p
May 11, 2015 at 17:17
@ashok_p Replace Foo with abc.png.
– kenorb
May 11, 2015 at 18:47

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Romeo Ninov · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-11 15:29:12Z

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You can use unzip command for this purpose:

unzip -t example.war |grep filename

answered May 11, 2015 at 15:29

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l33tHax0r · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-17 19:06:05Z

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jar tvf foo.war | grep filename

answered Jul 17, 2018 at 19:06

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While this bit of code may be correct, the lack of ANY contextualizing information makes this answer useless and unhelpful.
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Jul 17, 2018 at 20:57

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