From 2f0bc9cd40f709152a0177c8e585c0757e9af9c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:49:48 +0300 Subject: Quick & dirty update to support xz in diff/grep/more scripts. --- src/scripts/xzgrep.1 | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/scripts/xzgrep.1 (limited to 'src/scripts/xzgrep.1') diff --git a/src/scripts/xzgrep.1 b/src/scripts/xzgrep.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d8647f2a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/scripts/xzgrep.1 @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +.\" Original file was take from gzip, thus this man page is under GNU GPLv2+. +.TH XZGREP 1 "2009-04-13" "XZ Utils" +.SH NAME +xzgrep \- search .xz and .lzma compressed files for a regular expression +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B xzgrep +.RI [ grep_options ] +.RB [ \-e ] +.I pattern +.IR filename ".\|.\|." +.br +.B xzegrep +.RB ... +.br +.B xzfgrep +.RB ... +.br +.B lzgrep +.RB ... +.br +.B lzegrep +.RB ... +.br +.B lzfgrep +.RB ... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B xzgrep +is used to invoke the +.BR grep (1) +on .xz or .lzma compressed files. All options specified are passed directly to +.BR 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 +.BR grep . +.PP +If +.B xzgrep +is invoked as +.B xzegrep +or +.B xzfgrep +then +.B egrep +or +.B fgrep +is used instead of +.B grep. +The same applies to names +.BR lzgrep , +.BR lzegrep , +and +.BR lzfgrep , +which are provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils. + +If the GREP environment variable is set, +.B xzgrep +uses it as the +.B grep +program to be invoked. For example: + + for sh: GREP=fgrep xzgrep string files + for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; xzgrep string files) +.SH AUTHORS +Original +.BR zgrep (1) +manual page by Charles Levert . +.PP +Minor modifications for XZ Utils by Lasse Collin +. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR grep (1), +.BR egrep (1), +.BR fgrep (1), +.BR xzdiff (1), +.BR xzmore (1), +.BR xz (1) -- cgit v1.2.3