Manual Pages — ZGREP

NAME

zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep, bzgrep, bzegrep, bzfgrep, lzgrep, lzegrep, lzfgrep, xzgrep, xzegrep, xzfgrep, zstdgrep, zstdegrep, zstdfgrep – grep compressed files

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
BUGS

SYNOPSIS

zgrep [flags ]files
zegrep [flags ]files
zfgrep [flags ]files

bzgrep [flags ]files
bzegrep [flags ]files
bzfgrep [flags ]files

lzgrep [flags ]files
lzegrep [flags ]files
lzfgrep [flags ]files

xzgrep [flags ]files
xzegrep [flags ]files
xzfgrep [flags ]files

zstdgrep [flags ]files
zstdegrep [flags ]files
zstdfgrep [flags ]files

DESCRIPTION

Allow grep(1) to read compressed files.

AUTHORS

This version of the zgrep utility was written by Thomas Klausner <Mt wiz@NetBSD.org>.

BUGS

zgrep(1) does not handle flags that take arguments if there is no whitespace between the flag and the argument, for example:

zgrep -enfs /etc/rpc

When more than one -e flag is used matching should occur for any of the patterns (similar to multiple patterns supplied in a file with the -f flag). zgrep(1) only matches the last -e pattern.

ZGREP (1)

July 20, 2020

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