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.TH ZGREP "1" "August 2014" "zgrep (zutils) 1.3" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
zgrep \- search compressed files for a regular expression
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B zgrep
[\fI\,options\/\fR] \fI\,<pattern> \/\fR[\fI\,files\/\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Zgrep is a front end to the grep program that allows transparent search
on any combination of compressed and uncompressed files. If any given
file is compressed, its decompressed content is used. If a given file
does not exist, and its name does not end with one of the known
extensions, zgrep tries the compressed file names corresponding to the
supported formats. If no files are specified, data is read from
standard input, decompressed if needed, and fed to grep. Data read from
standard input must be of the same type; all uncompressed or all
in the same compression format.
.PP
The supported formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
.PP
Exit status is 0 if match, 1 if no match, 2 if trouble.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-text\fR
treat all files as text
.TP
\fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-after\-context=\fR<n>
print <n> lines of trailing context
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-byte\-offset\fR
print the byte offset of each line
.TP
\fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-before\-context=\fR<n>
print <n> lines of leading context
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-count\fR
only print a count of matching lines per file
.TP
\fB\-C\fR, \fB\-\-context=\fR<n>
print <n> lines of output context
.TP
\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-regexp=\fR<pattern>
use <pattern> as the pattern to match
.TP
\fB\-E\fR, \fB\-\-extended\-regexp\fR
<pattern> is an extended regular expression
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-file=\fR<file>
obtain patterns from <file>
.TP
\fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-fixed\-strings\fR
<pattern> is a set of newline\-separated strings
.TP
\fB\-\-format=\fR<fmt>
force given format (bz2, gz, lz, xz)
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-no\-filename\fR
suppress the prefixing filename on output
.TP
\fB\-H\fR, \fB\-\-with\-filename\fR
print the filename for each match
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-case\fR
ignore case distinctions
.TP
\fB\-I\fR
ignore binary files
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-files\-with\-matches\fR
only print names of files containing matches
.TP
\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-files\-without\-match\fR
only print names of files containing no matches
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-max\-count=\fR<n>
stop after <n> matches
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-line\-number\fR
print the line number of each line
.TP
\fB\-N\fR, \fB\-\-no\-rcfile\fR
don't read runtime configuration file
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-only\-matching\fR
show only the part of a line matching <pattern>
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
suppress all messages
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR
operate recursively on directories
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-no\-messages\fR
suppress error messages
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-invert\-match\fR
select non\-matching lines
.TP
\fB\-\-verbose\fR
verbose mode (show error messages)
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-word\-regexp\fR
match only whole words
.TP
\fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-line\-regexp\fR
match only whole lines
.TP
\fB\-\-bz2=\fR<command>
set compressor and options for bzip2 format
.TP
\fB\-\-gz=\fR<command>
set compressor and options for gzip format
.TP
\fB\-\-lz=\fR<command>
set compressor and options for lzip format
.TP
\fB\-\-xz=\fR<command>
set compressor and options for xz format
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to zutils\-bug@nongnu.org
.br
Zutils home page: http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.