X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=gzip;a=blobdiff_plain;f=zgrep.1;h=ef37bd8b0660054bc496b25ecdabc8f60ad2056b;hp=a52a88abcf802802bc4d1729bdba60c776e4af3b;hb=HEAD;hpb=302189d124ed5849c2589ea92e912eb24fdc4ab3 diff --git a/zgrep.1 b/zgrep.1 index a52a88a..ef37bd8 100644 --- a/zgrep.1 +++ b/zgrep.1 @@ -7,38 +7,23 @@ zgrep \- search possibly compressed files for a regular expression .BI [\ -e\ ] " pattern" .IR filename ".\|.\|." .SH DESCRIPTION -.IR Zgrep -is used to invoke the +.I Zgrep +invokes .I grep -on compress'ed or gzip'ed files. All options specified are passed directly to -.I grep. +on compressed or gzipped files. +All options specified are passed directly to +.IR 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. +.IR grep . .PP -If -.I zgrep -is invoked as -.I zegrep -or -.I zfgrep -then -.I egrep -or -.I fgrep -is used instead of -.I grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, .I zgrep uses it as the .I grep -program to be invoked. For example: - - for sh: GREP=fgrep zgrep string files - for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; zgrep string files) +program to be invoked. .SH AUTHOR Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) .SH "SEE ALSO" -grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), zdiff(1), zmore(1), znew(1), zforce(1), -gzip(1), gzexe(1) +grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)