On Mar 17, 10:20 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> So I need to recursively grep a bunch of gzipped files. This can't be
> easily done with grep, rgrep or zgrep. (I'm sure given the right
> pipeline including using the find command it could be done....but
> seems like a hassle).
If it's for something quick & dirty, you can't beat the pipeline, e.g.
something like:
find some_dir -name "*gz" | xargs -i sh -c "echo '== {} =='; zcat {}
| grep some_pattern"
George
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