| ZGREP(1) | General Commands Manual | ZGREP(1) | 
NAME
 zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep — print lines matching a pattern in gzip-compressed files
SYNOPSIS
| zgrep | [grep-flags] [--] pattern [files ...] | 
| zegrep | [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] | 
| zfgrep | [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] | 
 
DESCRIPTION
 zgrep runs 
grep(1) on 
files or stdin, if no 
files argument is given, after decompressing them with 
zcat(1).
The grep-flags and pattern arguments are passed on to grep(1). If an -e flag is found in the grep-flags, zgrep will not look for a pattern argument.
zegrep calls egrep(1), while zfgrep calls fgrep(1).
 
EXIT STATUS
 In case of missing arguments or missing pattern, 1 will be returned, otherwise 0.
AUTHORS
 Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>