[lug] Grep question

[Daniel Webb]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Joey McDonald wrote:

> I usually do something like:
>
> find /dir/to/search -type f | xargs -n1 grep -l string $1

I don't see how that finds the string inside a gzipped text file.

Come to think of it, what I really want is to be able to grep inside any
kind of file or archive that can possibly be converted to text (for
example, something.pdf.gz could be gunzipped, then pdftotext used to
convert to text).  Does THAT exist?

Daniel