There's never any need to use grep in this fashion.
Personally, I'd go with a simplified version of vgersh99's sed (unnecessary backreference):
Regards,
Alister
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somelineoftext
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1 2 3 4 5 7 df v g gf
e r dfkf lsdk dslsdklsdk
Report Start: xxxxxxdad
asdffsdfsdfsdfasfasdffasdf
sadfasdfsadffsfsdf Report End.
sdfasdfasdf
sdfasfdasdfasdfasdfasdf
sadfasdfsdf
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
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 invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to 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 grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)ZGREP(1)