man/cat1/bzgrep.1.txt

BZGREP(1) BZGREP(1)
 
 
 
NAME
       bzgrep, bzfgrep, bzegrep - search possibly bzip2 com-
       pressed files for a regular expression
 
SYNOPSIS
       bzgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
       bzegrep [ egrep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
       bzfgrep [ fgrep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
 
DESCRIPTION
       Bzgrep is used to invoke the grep on bzip2-compressed
       files. All options specified are passed directly to
       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
       grep.
 
       If bzgrep is invoked as bzegrep or bzfgrep then egrep or
       fgrep is used instead of grep. If the GREP environment
       variable is set, bzgrep uses it as the grep program to
       be invoked. For example:
 
           for sh: GREP=fgrep bzgrep string files
           for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; bzgrep string files)
 
AUTHOR
       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca). Adapted to
       bzip2 by Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for Debian
       GNU/Linux.
 
SEE ALSO
       grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), bzdiff(1), bzmore(1),
       bzless(1), bzip2(1)
 
 
 
                                                                     BZGREP(1)