xzgrep - search compressed files for a regular expression
xzgrep [grep_options] [-e] pattern file... xzegrep ... xzfgrep ... lzgrep ... lzegrep ... lzfgrep ...
XZGREP(1) XZ Utils XZGREP(1)
NAME
xzgrep - search compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
xzgrep [grep_options] [-e] pattern file...
xzegrep ...
xzfgrep ...
lzgrep ...
lzegrep ...
lzfgrep ...
DESCRIPTION
xzgrep invokes grep(1) on files which may be either uncompressed or
compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), or lzop(1). All
options specified are passed directly to grep(1).
If no file is specified, then standard input is decompressed if neces-
sary and fed to grep(1). When reading from standard input, gzip(1),
bzip2(1), and lzop(1) compressed files are not supported.
If xzgrep is invoked as xzegrep or xzfgrep then egrep(1) or fgrep(1) is
used instead of grep(1). The same applies to names lzgrep, lzegrep,
and lzfgrep, which are provided for backward compatibility with LZMA
Utils.
ENVIRONMENT
GREP If the GREP environment variable is set, xzgrep uses it instead
of grep(1), egrep(1), or fgrep(1).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | compress/xz |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
grep(1), xz(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), lzop(1), zgrep(1)
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.2.5.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://tukaani.org/xz/.
Tukaani 2011-03-19 XZGREP(1)