On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:48:59 -0500, John McKowen Taylor, Jr. wrote
> > Subject:
> > grep fn.1.gz
> > From:
> > "Mike Vanecek" <rh_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:
> > Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:54:55 -0600
> > To:
> > "redhat_list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > Dumb question time ... One can do a less fn.1.gz directly. I would like to be
> > able to grep or egrep pattern fn.1.gz in the same manner. Does an easy way
> > exist to do that? My approach of using gunzip seems rather awkward and I just
> > wondered if a easier way existed?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> "grep -F fn.1.gz" will do what you want.
>
> If you find yourself doing this a lot,
> you might want to alias grep to "grep -F".
>
> Beware that this deactivates ALL of the RE magic,
> you can't even use ^ and $ anchors.
-F, --fixed-strings
Interpret PATTERN as a list of fixed strings, separated by new-
lines, any of which is to be matched. -P, --perl-regexp Inter-
pret PATTERN as a Perl regular expression.
John, thanks, but I could not get that to work. Another posted suggested zgrep
which was exactly what I needed.
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