01-02-2009
Try -- to sign end of options. This is a general rule for such problems, e.g.
To grep -3 try:
grep -- -3 ...
If yoy want to remove a file named -panos you give:
rm -- -panos
etc.
This fact is true due to getopt function. This function is used by system programers
who write tools like grep, rm etc. The function marks end of option with a double dash
(--), so the behavior is similar for all tools using getopt to process options.
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zgrep
ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)
NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep is used to invoke the grep on compress'ed or gzip'ed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is speci-
fied, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and
fed to grep.
If zgrep is invoked as zegrep or zfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses
it as the grep program to be invoked. For example:
for sh: GREP=fgrep zgrep string files
for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; zgrep string files)
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO
grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), zdiff(1), zmore(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1)
ZGREP(1)