lzegrep
searches for extended regular expression patterns in lzip-compressed files
TLDR
Search with extended regex
$ lzegrep [pattern] [file.lz]
Case-insensitive search$ lzegrep -i [pattern] [file.lz]
Show line numbers$ lzegrep -n [pattern] [file.lz]
SYNOPSIS
lzegrep [options] pattern [file...]
DESCRIPTION
lzegrep searches for extended regular expression patterns in lzip-compressed files. It is equivalent to lzgrep -E and internally pipes decompressed data through grep -E (or egrep). Uncompressed files are searched directly.
PARAMETERS
-i
Case-insensitive matching.-n
Prefix each matching line with its line number.-v
Invert match; show lines that do not match.-c
Print only the count of matching lines per file.-l
Print only the names of files containing matches.-h
Suppress file name prefixes in output.-H
Force file name prefixes in output.-e PATTERN
Use PATTERN as the search pattern; useful for multiple patterns.
INSTALL
sudo dnf install xz
sudo pacman -S xz
sudo apk add xz
sudo zypper install xz
brew install xz
nix profile install nixpkgs#xz
