ZGREP(1)

💅 ZGREP(1) — like, the general commands manual bestie, section 1, we love her

okay so picture this: you've got a file, it's compressed, and grep is just standing there like 👁️👄👁️ refusing to look inside. enter zgrep and her fourteen identical twin sisters. same energy, different decompressor. iykyk 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep, bzgrep, bzegrep, bzfgrep, lzgrep, lzegrep, lzfgrep, xzgrep, xzegrep, xzfgrep, zstdgrep, zstdegrep, zstdfgrep — the whole friend group 💖 and what do they do? they grep compressed files. that's it. that's the vibe.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

each family has their own little trio, and yes, the pattern is exactly what you think it is:

zgrep [flags] files
zegrep [flags] files
zfgrep [flags] files

bzgrep [flags] files
bzegrep [flags] files
bzfgrep [flags] files

lzgrep [flags] files
lzegrep [flags] files
lzfgrep [flags] files

xzgrep [flags] files
xzegrep [flags] files
xzfgrep [flags] files

zstdgrep [flags] files
zstdegrep [flags] files
zstdfgrep [flags] files

group chat rules, honestly: <prefix>grep is the normal one, <prefix>egrep is the extended-regex one, <prefix>fgrep is the fixed-string one. slay 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the entire job description, in one sentence: let grep(1) read compressed files. that's it. nobody's asking her to be complicated. iconic, lowkey. ✨

ngl bestie, that's the whole description. no hidden lore, no secret flags section, nothing else hiding under the couch. sometimes the manpage is just short and we respect that 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read her friends, they're all main characters:

• bzip2(1)
• grep(1)
• gzip(1)
• xz(1)
• zstd(1)

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

this version of the zgrep utility was written by Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> — credit where credit is due, bestie, always 🫡💜

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and that's the whole page!! no cap, you now know everything zgrep knows.

Debian · July 20, 2020 · ZGREP(1) — mwah, go grep something compressed, it's giving efficiency 🌈💅🎀