bzfgrep(1)

bzfgrep1

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

56 releases since FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE; the text changed 41 times.

  1. 5.0–5.2.1
  2. 5.3
  3. 5.4
  4. 5.5
  5. 6.0
  6. 6.1
  7. 6.2–6.3
  8. 6.4
  9. 7.0
  10. 7.1
  11. 7.2
  12. 7.3
  13. 7.4
  14. 8.0
  15. 8.1
  16. 8.2
  17. 8.3
  18. 8.4
  19. 9.0
  20. 9.1
  21. 9.2
  22. 9.3
  23. 10.0
  24. 10.1
  25. 10.2
  26. 10.3
  27. 10.4
  28. 11.0
  29. 11.1
  30. 11.2
  31. 11.3
  32. 11.4
  33. 12.0
  34. 12.1
  35. 12.2
  36. 12.3
  37. 12.4
  38. 13.0–13.2
  39. 13.3–14.3
  40. 14.4–14.5
  41. 15.0
  42. 15.1–16.0

--basic-regexp until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --binary until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --binary-files until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --byte-offset until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --bz2decompress until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --color until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --colour until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --context until FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE; --count until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --decompress until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --exclude until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --extended-regexp until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --files-with-matches until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --files-without-match until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --fixed-strings until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --help until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --ignore-case until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --include until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --invert-match until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --label until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --line-buffered until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --line-buffering until FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE; --line-number until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --line-regexp until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --mmap until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --no-filename until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --no-messages until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --null until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --only-matching until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --perl-regexp until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --quiet until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --recursive until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --silent until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --text until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --unix-byte-offsets until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --version until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --with-filename until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; --word-regexp until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -C until FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE; -E until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -F until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -G until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -H until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -I until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -J until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -L until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -NUM until FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE; -P until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -R until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -U until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -V until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -Z until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -a until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -b until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -c until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -h until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -i until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -l until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -n until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -o until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -q until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -r until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -s until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -u until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -v until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -w until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -x until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE; -y until FreeBSD 11.4-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.