zfgrep

Matches fixed strings in possibly compressed files. Equivalent to grep -F with input decompressed first if necessary. More information: <https://manned.org/zfgrep>.

Install

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

Matches fixed strings in possibly compressed files. Equivalent to grep -F with input decompressed first if necessary. More information: <https://manned.org/zfgrep>.

  • Search for an exact string in a file:
    zfgrep search_string path/to/file
  • Count the number of lines that match the given string in a file:
    zfgrep --count search_string path/to/file
  • Show the line number in the file along with the matching lines:
    zfgrep --line-number search_string path/to/file
  • Display all lines except those that contain the search string:
    zfgrep --invert-match search_string path/to/file
  • List only filenames whose content matches the search string at least once:
    zfgrep --files-with-matches search_string path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

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