BZGREP(1)                                               BZGREP(1)



NAME
       bzgrep,  bzfgrep,  bzegrep  -  search  possibly bzip2 com-
       pressed 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 decom-
       pressed 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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