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From: sleepy@wybbs.mi.org (Mike Faber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: does a zgrep exist? (zgrep <> zcat | grep)
Message-ID: <348@wybbs.mi.org>
Date: 19 Feb 91 15:13:14 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.232854.13378@robobar.co.uk> <463@bria> <1991Feb18.075330.15536@convex.com> <12845:Feb1900:14:4891@kramden.acf.nyu.ed
Reply-To: sleepy@wybbs.UUCP (Mike Faber)
Organization: Consultants Connection, Jenison MI
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a simple shell invoked with arguements is easy enough...

$ sh zgrep string file [file ...]

zgrep:
if [ $# -lt 2]
then
	echo usage:
	exit 1
fi

vgrep=$1
shift

while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
	zcat $i | grep $vgrep | awk fil=$1 '{printf("%s:%s\n",fil,$0)}'
	shift
done


Now, was that so painful...

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sleepy@wybbs.UUCP
Michael Faber