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.TH GZGREP 1
.SH NAME
gzgrep, gzegrep, gzfgrep \- search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gzgrep
[ grep_options ]
.BI  [\ -e\ ] " pattern"
.IR filename ".\|.\|."
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Gzgrep
invokes
.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
.IR grep .
.PP
If the GREP environment variable is set,
.I gzgrep
uses it as the
.I grep
program to be invoked.
.SH AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

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.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp
.TS
box;
cbp-1 | cbp-1
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
=
Availability	compress/gzip
=
Stability	Committed
.TE 
.PP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), gzdiff(1), gzforce(1), gzmore(1), gznew(1)


.SH NOTES

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This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original community source was downloaded from  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.5.tar.gz

Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/.