Un*x User might prefer
zgrep or one of the other *greps:
tomk32@tomk32 ~$ apropos grep
bzegrep (1) - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a re
+gular expression
bzfgrep (1) - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a re
+gular expression
bzgrep (1) - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a re
+gular expression
egrep (1) - print lines matching a pattern
exigrep (8) - program to extract information from exim logs
fgrep (1) - print lines matching a pattern
grep (1) - print lines matching a pattern
pgrep (1) - look up or signal processes based on name and o
+ther attributes
rgrep (1) - print lines matching a pattern
zegrep (1) - search possibly compressed files for a regular
+expression
zfgrep (1) - search possibly compressed files for a regular
+expression
zgrep (1) - search possibly compressed files for a regular
+expression
zipgrep (1) - search files in a ZIP archive for lines matchin
+g a pattern
--
package Lizard::King;
sub can { do { 'anything'} };