find string inside a gzipped file in a folder

Question

My current problem is that I have around 10 folders, which contain gzipped files (around on an average 5 each). This makes it 50 files to open and look at.

Is there

Answer 1

zgrep "string" ./*/*

You can use above command to search for string in .gz files of dir directory where dir has following sub-directories structure:

/dir
    /childDir1
              /file1.gz
              /file2.gz
    /childDir2
              /file3.gz
              /file4.gz
    /childDir3
              /file5.gz
              /file6.gz