lzegrep(1)

lzegrep1

Grep compressed files

Part of zgrep(1).

Usage

zgrep [flags] files

zegrep [flags] files

zfgrep [flags] files

bzgrep [flags] files

bzegrep [flags] files

bzfgrep [flags] files

lzgrep [flags] files

lzegrep [flags] files

lzfgrep [flags] files

xzgrep [flags] files

xzegrep [flags] files

xzfgrep [flags] files

zstdgrep [flags] files

zstdegrep [flags] files

zstdfgrep [flags] files

Overview

Allow grep(1) to read compressed files.

Releases

23 releases since FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE; the text changed 12 times.

  1. 10.2
  2. 10.3
  3. 10.4
  4. 12.0
  5. 12.1
  6. 12.2
  7. 12.3
  8. 12.4
  9. 13.0–13.2
  10. 13.3–14.3
  11. 14.4–14.5
  12. 15.0
  13. 15.1–16.0

--basic-regexp until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --binary until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --binary-files until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --byte-offset until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --bz2decompress until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --color until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --colour until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --count until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --decompress until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --exclude until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --extended-regexp until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --files-with-matches until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --files-without-match until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --fixed-strings until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --help until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --ignore-case until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --include until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --invert-match until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --label until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --line-buffered until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --line-number until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --line-regexp until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --mmap until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --no-filename until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --no-messages until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --null until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --only-matching until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --perl-regexp until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --quiet until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --recursive until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --silent until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --text until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --unix-byte-offsets until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --version until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --with-filename until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; --word-regexp until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -E until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -F until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -G until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -H until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -I until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -J until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -L until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -P until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -R until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -U until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -V until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -Z until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -a until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -b until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -c until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -h until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -i until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -l until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -n until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -o until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -q until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -r until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -s until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -u until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -v until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -w until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -x until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE; -y until FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE.

Authors

This version of the zgrep utility was written by Thomas Klausner ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.