#AskFedi #Linux

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

#AskFedi #Linux

Is there a way to get '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, preferably with the path for each included. Can this be done?

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@afreytes the general answer is no. You can almost achieve what you want if you install AVF(S) <https://avf.sourceforge.net/> (packaged in Debian; not to be confused with avfs https://github.com/avfs/avfs), that allows you almost-seamless handling of archives by appending #/ to peek into them.

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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...

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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[oblomov@sociale.network]

@afreytes so, how did you achieve this?

[hosford42@techhub.social]

@oblomov @afreytes

I think python's zipfile module will let you list the contents without extracting them; it's in the metadata.

[hosford42@techhub.social]

@oblomov @afreytes

Now for all the other compression/tarball formats! :)

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@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 😇

[zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org]

@afreytes @hosford42 @oblomov
github.com/laktak/zfind/