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Some important details are missing:

What is the output? Are there any diagnostic messages (like "file not found", etc.)?

The variables you use should all be quoted by double quotes. Blanks in the file names might break your command, for instance.

Is the file "$exclude" indeed found? It might be referenced by a relative path name which works from one PWD but not another.

What is the content of "$extn"? To work it would need to include a wildcard (like "*ext") and this would definitely have to be quoted, otherwise the shell (and not "find") would expand it.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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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)