does a zgrep exist? (zgrep <> zcat | grep)

[James Brister]

I guess this is marginally under comp.unix.shell...

It would be nice to grep through compressed files. Sure, you can do zcat |
grep regexp, but then you loose the ability of grep to tell you the
filename and/or linenumber of a match.  Uncompressing the files before
greping isn't really wanted, cause you may not have the space on disk.

Does such a thing exist?

Thanks

James
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James Brister                                           brister at decwrl.dec.com
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