Zip Searching Not Working (MacOS)

[mlw4428]

When searching ZIP files nothing happens. Zip files contain a mixture of other zip files and various text files. Text files DO contain the searched for string.

The command works perfectly fine (subject to the obvious argument changes) if ran against the decompressed archive and finds results.

What am I missing?

Diagnostic details follow:

% rg "ERROR" -z test.zip --debug
rg: DEBUG|rg::flags::parse|crates/core/flags/parse.rs:97: no extra arguments found from configuration file
rg: DEBUG|rg::flags::hiargs|crates/core/flags/hiargs.rs:1083: number of paths given to search: 1
rg: DEBUG|rg::flags::hiargs|crates/core/flags/hiargs.rs:1094: is_one_file? true
rg: DEBUG|rg::flags::hiargs|crates/core/flags/hiargs.rs:1269: found hostname for hyperlink configuration: HOSTNAME
rg: DEBUG|rg::flags::hiargs|crates/core/flags/hiargs.rs:1279: hyperlink format: ""
rg: DEBUG|rg::flags::hiargs|crates/core/flags/hiargs.rs:174: using 1 thread(s)
rg: DEBUG|grep_regex::config|/private/tmp/ripgrep-20240909-11968-9idoy0/ripgrep-14.1.1/crates/regex/src/config.rs:175: assembling HIR from 1 fixed string literals
rg: DEBUG|globset|crates/globset/src/lib.rs:453: built glob set; 0 literals, 0 basenames, 12 extensions, 0 prefixes, 0 suffixes, 0 required extensions, 0 regexes

% rg --version
ripgrep 14.1.1

features:+pcre2
simd(compile):+NEON
simd(runtime):+NEON

PCRE2 10.43 is available (JIT is available)

Running MacOS and as far as I can tell, all of the necessary compression libraries are installed:

% unzip
UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Info-ZIP. Maintained by C. Spieler. Send
bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for details.

% xz --version
xz (XZ Utils) 5.8.1
liblzma 5.8.1

% bzip2 --version
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.8, 13-Jul-2019.

% tar --version
bsdtar 3.5.3 - libarchive 3.5.3 zlib/1.2.12 liblzma/5.4.3 bz2lib/1.0.8

[BurntSushi]

From the man page, emphasis mine:

This flag instructs ripgrep to search in compressed files. Currently gzip,
bzip2, xz, LZ4, LZMA, Brotli and Zstd files are supported. This option
expects the decompression binaries (such as gzip) to be available in your
PATH. If the required bina‐ ries are not found, then ripgrep will not emit an
error messages by default. Use the --debug flag to see more information.

Note that this flag does not make ripgrep search archive formats as
directory trees. It only makes ripgrep detect compressed files and then
decompress them before searching their contents as it would any other file.

This overrides the --pre flag.

This flag can be disabled with --no-search-zip.

[mlw4428]

I guess I could use some clarification. As I read this my understanding is that it will decompress the zip file (assumption I'm making is in-process, not actually creating files) and then searching them for the query after which it will show the results.

Would you clarify so I can correct my misunderstanding, please?

[BurntSushi]

zip is an archive format. ripgrep doesn't understand archive formats. It only understands how to decompress things.

Archiving and compression are orthogonal concepts.

Notice that in the list of currently supported file types, neither zip nor tar is on the list.

[mlw4428]

I see, my confusion stemmed from the naming of the flag --search-zip. Perhaps --search-archive would be a more useful suggestion? I appreciate the assistance - thank you!

[BurntSushi]

The flag comes from other tools. And "zip" also means compression. And I don't think you mean --search-archive. Archive support is exactly what ripgrep doesn't do.