XZ: Single file compressed with XZ (.xz file).įormats That PowerGREP Can Decompress Only.LZMA: Single file compressed with LZMA (.lzma file).BZip2: Single file compressed with BZip2 (.bz2 file).GZip: Single file compressed with GZip (.gz file).
CPIO XZ: CPIO archive compressed into an XZ file (.cpio.xz or.CPIO LZMA: CPIO archive compressed into an LZMA file (.cpio.lzma or.CPIO BZip2: CPIO archive compressed into a BZip2 file (.cpio.bz2 or.CPIO GZip: CPIO archive compressed into a GZip file (.cpio.gz or.CPIO uncompressed: Uncompressed CPIO archive (.cpio file).TAR XZ: Tarball compressed into an XZ file (.tar.xz or.TAR LZMA: Tarball compressed into an LZMA file (.tar.lzma or.TAR BZip2: Tarball compressed into a BZip2 file (.tar.bz2 or.TAR GZip: Tarball compressed into a GZip file (.tar.gz or.The most popular archive format on Linux, usually compressed using one of the four methods below. TAR uncompressed: Uncompressed tarball (.tar file).This format yields the smallest files of all the archive formats that PowerGREP can create. 7-zip archives: 7z format used by 7-zip.
Incompatible with most ZIP tools, but allows better compression. ZIPX archives: ZIPX format used WinZIP.ZIP archives: ZIP format used by PKZip, WinZIP, and a host of other compression utilities.It can also create new archives using these formats. PowerGREP can modify files inside these archives and add files to them and delete files from them. Archive Formats PowerGREP Can Read and WriteĪll of PowerGREP’s features are available for these file formats. The “ archive formats to search inside” setting on the File Selector lets you tell PowerGREP exactly which files should be recognized as which archive formats, and whether to search through them or skip them. Or maybe you want to search through archives in a particular format, but not through any other archives. zip files as ordinary files or to skip them entirely. Of course, sometimes you don’t want to search through.
While PowerGREP’s Undo History handles zipped or regular backup files just the same, a single zip file is handier if you want to archive backups outside of PowerGREP. Use the “ numbered archive” backup type to create a new archive for each action’s backup files. If you like to keep backup files around, save disk space by telling PowerGREP to compress backups into zip archives. Now you need to attach only one zip file.
This is particularly useful if you plan to email the results. When collecting data or converting many files, PowerGREP can save the results into one or more new zip archives, even if the original files were not compressed. Now you can save hard disk space or place more files on a CD or DVD by compressing them, and still search through them as usual. Files inside archives are decompressed on-the-fly. With PowerGREP you can work with zip files and other archives as if they were regular file folders. This is particularly useful when extracting information from archived documents, or when gathering statistics from compressed log files. With PowerGREP, you can quickly search for a piece of information through files and folders on your computer and network, including files compressed inside.