BZGREP(1) User Commands BZGREP(1)

NAME

bzgrep, bzfgrep, bzegrep - search possibly bzip2 compressed 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)