Look into compressed office documents (xlsx, docx, odt, ods, pdf, xml, office)

[Yyyyes]

Hi, Thanks for the great job.
As we work more and more with compressed document files (xml docx xlsx odt ods pdf - ms office, libre office, some graphic formats, pdf ) , are there any plan on adding a module to look inside those type of file ?
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PS I use Total commander to do it but it's so slow compared to grepWin!

[BallM4788]

Echoing this request.

[garry-ut99]

Also searching in archives would be useful too, which is implemented in dnGrep :

• https://github.com/dnGrep/dnGrep/wiki/Archive-Search

[stefankueng]

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[lifenjoiner]

Too ambitious, at least when there is no proper solution.
Look at their size, I don't think you expect grepWin to become another dnGrep.
Size Vs features. There is definitely a balance.

[garry-ut99]

If grepWin just simply wants to stay a simple tool, that's fine, I do accept it because it's stated since the beginning:
https://github.com/stefankueng/grepWin?tab=readme-ov-file#grepwin : "grepWin is a simple search and replace tool", so I have no intention of changing by force it's nature/design.

Look at their size, I don't think you expect grepWin to become another dnGrep.

But I don't think that users which have dozen of GB of compressed files, which might take 50GB or 100GB on disk after decompressing, care about 170,5 MB disk space gain...they more likely are happy that dnGrep saved a lot more than 170,5MB...hence I don't understand your point of speaking about size in the context of compressed files support, unless you've been speaking not in the context of compressed files support. It's unclear which context you meant.

[lifenjoiner]

TIL: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. >>>

You know what I meant. Don't be a nitpicker.