ZGREP
NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep
[ grep_options ]
I [ -e ] pattern
R filename ...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep
invokes
grep
on compressed or gzipped files.
All options specified are passed directly to
R grep .
If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed
if necessary and fed to grep.
Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to
R grep .
If the GREP environment variable is set,
zgrep
uses it as the
grep
program to be invoked.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)
