BZGREP(1)

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  op-
       tions  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)

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