does a zgrep exist? (zgrep <> zcat | grep)

[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of uunet!bria!mike:
:Why, when grep assumes stdin if you only supply the regex?
:
:	zcat file.Z | grep regex

Guys, the original problem was that 

	zcat *.Z | grep regexp

didn't help him identify in which file the match was found.  Witness:

>From brister at decwrl.december.com (James Brister) in
<BRISTER.91Feb14204903 at saratoga.decwrl.december.com>:

>It would be nice to grep through compressed files. Sure, you can do zcat |
>grep regexp, but then you loose the ability of grep to tell you the
>filename and/or linenumber of a match.  Uncompressing the files before
>greping isn't really wanted, cause you may not have the space on disk.

How quickly we forget!

--tom
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