\"Shamelessly copied from zmore.1 by Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>

\"for Debian GNU/Linux

.TH BZGREP 1

.SH NAME

bzgrep, bzfgrep, bzegrep \- search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B bzgrep

[ grep_options ]

.BI  [\ -e\ ] " pattern"

.IR filename ".\|.\|."

.br

.B bzegrep

[ egrep_options ]

.BI  [\ -e\ ] " pattern"

.IR filename ".\|.\|."

.br

.B bzfgrep

[ fgrep_options ]

.BI  [\ -e\ ] " pattern"

.IR filename ".\|.\|."

.SH DESCRIPTION

.IR  Bzgrep

is used to invoke the

.I grep

on bzip2-compressed files. All options specified are passed directly to

.I 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

.I grep.

.PP

If

.I bzgrep

is invoked as

.I bzegrep

or

.I bzfgrep

then

.I egrep

or

.I fgrep

is used instead of

.I grep.

If the GREP environment variable is set,

.I bzgrep

uses it as the

.I grep

program to be invoked. For example:

    for sh:  GREP=fgrep  bzgrep string files

    for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; bzgrep string files)

.SH AUTHOR

Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca). Adapted to bzip2 by Philippe

Troin <phil@fifi.org> for Debian GNU/Linux.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), bzdiff(1), bzmore(1), bzless(1), bzip2(1)