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>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/xzgrep.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install xz-utils
Ubuntu
apt-get install xz-utils
Alpine
apk add xz
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S xz
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install xz-utils
CentOS
yum install xz
Fedora
dnf install xz
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xz-utils
OS X
brew install xz
Raspbian
apt-get install xz-utils
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/xzgrep
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/xzgrep xzgrep powered by Commando

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

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