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ZGREP(1)                    General Commands Manual                   ZGREP(1)

NAME
       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS
       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION
       The zgrep command invokes grep on compressed or gzipped 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 the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep pro-
       gram to be invoked.

EXIT STATUS
       Exit status is 0 for a match, 1 for no matches, and 2 if trouble.

BUGS
       The following grep options are not  supported:  --dereference-recursive
       (-R),  --directories  (-d),  --exclude,  --exclude-from, --exclude-dir,
       --include, --null (-Z), --null-data (-z), and --recursive (-r).

AUTHOR
       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO
       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

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