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BZGREP(1)                                                                                          BZGREP(1)



NAME
       bzgrep, bzfgrep, bzegrep - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS
       bzgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
       bzegrep [ egrep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
       bzfgrep [ fgrep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION
       Bzgrep  is  used  to  invoke  the  grep  on  bzip2-compressed files. All options 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  bzgrep is invoked as bzegrep or bzfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep.  If the GREP
       environment variable is set, bzgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. For example:

           for sh:  GREP=fgrep  bzgrep string files
           for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; bzgrep string files)

AUTHOR
       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca). Adapted to bzip2  by  Philippe  Troin  <phil@fifi.org>  for
       Debian GNU/Linux.

SEE ALSO
       grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), bzdiff(1), bzmore(1), bzless(1), bzip2(1)



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