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1.TH ZGREP 1
2.SH NAME
3zgrep \- search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.B zgrep
6[ grep_options ]
7.BI [\ -e\ ] " pattern"
8.IR filename ".\|.\|."
9.SH DESCRIPTION
10.I Zgrep
11invokes
12.I grep
13on compressed or gzipped files.
14All options specified are passed directly to
15.IR grep .
16If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed
17if necessary and fed to grep.
18Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to
19.IR grep .
20.PP
21If the GREP environment variable is set,
22.I zgrep
23uses it as the
24.I grep
25program to be invoked.
26.SH AUTHOR
27Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
28.SH "SEE ALSO"
29grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)
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