Content search inside .gz files

[fokori]

Hi, would it be possible to make content: work with .gz files too?

A lot of programs compress old logs/text files into .gz, so Everything can find the file itself, but can't search the actual text inside it.

Would be nice if Everything could just decompress .gz in memory for content: searches, without extracting anything to disk.

Something like: ext:gz content:test

Not sure how hard this would be to add, but since gzip is usually just a single compressed stream, maybe it could be supported separately from full archive searching.

[therube]

I don't believe that ability is there (yet?).

Related, Search within 7z, RAR, and zip files.

[void]

It's not possible yet.
Support for searching inside compressed files might be added in a future version. Possibly as a plugin.
Thank you for the suggestion.