jesusgoku / targz-search

Search pattern into "Data Breach" `.tar.gz` files

Search Data Breach .tar.gz files

The data breach .tar.gz files contains a lot of .txt files. This script search into .txt files a regexp pattern and output match lines to stdout.

This script use NodeJS Stream for an efficient memory usage.

Running without installation

npx targz-search <pattern> <file.tar.gz>

Install locally

# Use npm
npm install -g targz-search

# Use yarn
yarn global add targz-search

Running

# Simple running
targz-search <pattern> <file.tar.gz>

# See more options
targz-search --help

Optional: Use only shell tools for same effect

tar xOf <file.tar.gz> | grep -iE 'pattern'

# If problem with some files reported as binary. Add "a" option to grep (Caution).
tar xOf <file.tar.gz> | grep -aiE 'pattern'