ZGREP(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay bestie, zgrep is how you search possibly compressed files for a regular expression ✨ no unzipping first, no cap 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So the zgrep command literally invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files 🫶 Every option you pass gets handed straight over to grep, so you already know how to use it 😭

If you don't name any file, zgrep decompresses standard input if it needs to and feeds it to grep 🧚 If you do name files, they get uncompressed if necessary and then fed to grep. It's giving effortless 🦋

If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses whatever's in it as the grep program it runs 👑 Main character energy for your grep setup 💜

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

Your exit status is 0 for a match ✨, 1 for no matches 🥀, and 2 if there's trouble 💀

🙈 BUGS 🙈

⚠️ Heads up bestie, these grep options are not supported by zgrep 😭: --dereference-recursive (-R), --directories (-d), --exclude, --exclude-from, --exclude-dir, --include, --null (-Z), --null-data (-z), and --recursive (-r). Don't say I didn't warn you 🫠

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) is the genius behind this one 🫶 Iconic.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Go check out grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), and znew(1) 💅 They're all lowkey part of the same friend group ✨

That's a wrap on ZGREP(1) from the General Commands Manual, bestie 🎀💖 Love you, mean it, periodt 🫶✨