Manual: bzegrep

BZGREP(1)				   General Commands Manual				   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 di‐
       rectly 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  for	 De‐
       bian GNU/Linux.

SEE ALSO
       grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), bzdiff(1), bzmore(1), bzless(1), bzip2(1)

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