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)

                                                                                                       BZGREP(1)