Is there any file content search tool that decompresses JAR files before looking into it?

Question

I use Agent Ransack to grep entire directories. But it doesn't unzip JAR files before looking into them, is there any tool that does that?

Answer 1

Try using unzip:

unzip -p your_file.jar | grep "your_search"

From the man page:

-p     extract files to pipe (stdout).  Nothing but the file data is sent to
       stdout, and the files are always extracted in binary format, just as
       they are stored (no conversions).