ZSTDGREP(1)

💖 ZSTDGREP(1) 💖 — User Commands ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

zstdgrep — print lines matching a pattern in zstandard-compressed files 🌸

🔮 SYNOPSIS 🔮

zstdgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [files ...]

📖 DESCRIPTION 📖

okay so zstdgrep basically runs grep(1) on your files 🦋 If you don't give it any files, it just reads from stdin instead. The big trick is that it decompresses everything first with zstdcat(1), so you never have to unzip anything yourself. iconic behavior, honestly 💅

The grep-flags and pattern arguments get passed straight through to grep(1). Heads up though: if you slip an -e flag into the grep-flags, then zstdgrep stops looking for a pattern argument, because your -e already covers it 🧚

Real talk, bestie: modern grep alternatives like ripgrep (rg(1)) already support zstd-compressed files out of the box 🔥 They can honestly be better picks than zstdgrep, especially when your pattern search gets really complex and unsupported. Just know those alternatives might have a few minor command line differences, so double check before you switch 🫶

🚦 EXIT STATUS 🚦

💀 If you're missing arguments or you don't have a pattern, it returns 1. Otherwise it returns 0. Simple as that! 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• zstd(1) ✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Thomas Klausner, wiz@NetBSD.org 🎀

Manual page for zstd 1.5.6, March 2024, ZSTDGREP(1). Bye bestie, you're literally the best 💖🦋✨