How to use grep in .zip file

Question

There are 3 files a.csv,b.csv,c.csv zipped as abh.zip, now is it possible to execute grep command on abh.zip (is there any wild card by which only grep run for c.csv file inside

Answer 1

If you have zipgrep (which, AFAIK, is shipped with the zip utilities), then you can simply do

zipgrep "pattern" abh.zip c.csv

zipgrep supports most of the same basic options as vanilla grep.

Alternatively, if you don't have zipgrep but you have unzip, you can do

unzip -p abh.zip c.csv | grep "pattern"

which unzips the file to a pipe (-p) then sends it to be grepped.