How to search for a string in JAR files

Question

My application is built on Java EE.

I have approximately 50 jars in this application.

Is it possible to search for a particular keyword (actually I want to s

Answer 1

The below command shows the results with the file name and jar file name.

1. To find the string in the list of jar file.

   find <%PATH of the Folder where you need to search%> -name "*.jar" -print -exec zipgrep "jar$|<%STRING THAT YOU NEED TO FIND>" '{}' \;
   

2. To find the class name in the list of jar file.

   find . -name "*.jar" -print -exec jar tvf {} \; |grep -E "jar$|<%CLASS NAME THAT YOU NEED TO FIND>\.class"