xzgrep

Search files possibly compressed with xz, lzma, gzip, bzip2, lzop, or zstd using regular expressions. See also: grep. More information: https://manned.org/xzgrep.

• Search for a pattern within a file:
  xzgrep "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}
• Search for an exact string (disables regular expressions):
  xzgrep --fixed-strings "{{exact_string}}" {{path/to/file}}
• Search for a pattern in all files showing line numbers of matches:
  xzgrep --line-number "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}
• Use extended regular expressions (supports ?, +, {}, () and |), in case-insensitive mode:
  xzgrep --extended-regexp --ignore-case "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}
• Print 3 lines of context around, before, or after each match:
  xzgrep --{{context|before-context|after-context}}={{3}} "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}
• Print file name and line number for each match with color output:
  xzgrep --with-filename --line-number --color=always "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}
• Search for lines matching a pattern, printing only the matched text:
  xzgrep --only-matching "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}