On many systems, there is a tool called zgrep which is used to grep content from compressed files. Is there any similar tool available on AIX? My purpose is to grep a particular word from multiple compressed files and display the filenames that contain that word on an AIX server. Could you suggest the best RPM package or another command to solve this issue?

You can install gzip rpm from AIX Toolbox and get the zgrep tool. 

On many systems, there is a tool called zgrep which is used to grep content from compressed files. Is there any similar tool available on AIX? My purpose is to grep a particular word from multiple compressed files and display the filenames that contain that word on an AIX server. Could you suggest the best RPM package or another command to solve this issue?

Hi Ayappan,

I have already installed the gzip package but no use , nothing is working 

You can install gzip rpm from AIX Toolbox and get the zgrep tool. 

On many systems, there is a tool called zgrep which is used to grep content from compressed files. Is there any similar tool available on AIX? My purpose is to grep a particular word from multiple compressed files and display the filenames that contain that word on an AIX server. Could you suggest the best RPM package or another command to solve this issue?

Can you explain more on why zgrep from gzip rpm is not working ? What is the error/problem you are facing ?

Hi Ayappan,

I have already installed the gzip package but no use , nothing is working 

You can install gzip rpm from AIX Toolbox and get the zgrep tool. 

On many systems, there is a tool called zgrep which is used to grep content from compressed files. Is there any similar tool available on AIX? My purpose is to grep a particular word from multiple compressed files and display the filenames that contain that word on an AIX server. Could you suggest the best RPM package or another command to solve this issue?

By using gzip -dc [FILE] | grep -i [STRING] This command is useful to grep the word from all compressed files only, but my query is different. I want to grep and display the list of file names that contain the word from all compressed files. I tried to used zgrep but i am getting this error

# zgrep 'fnsrr' *.gz
ksh: zgrep:  not found.

Can you explain more on why zgrep from gzip rpm is not working ? What is the error/problem you are facing ?

Hi Ayappan,

I have already installed the gzip package but no use , nothing is working 

You can install gzip rpm from AIX Toolbox and get the zgrep tool. 

On many systems, there is a tool called zgrep which is used to grep content from compressed files. Is there any similar tool available on AIX? My purpose is to grep a particular word from multiple compressed files and display the filenames that contain that word on an AIX server. Could you suggest the best RPM package or another command to solve this issue?

Share the below o/p's., 
rpm -qa | grep gzip 
rpm -ql gzip | grep zgrep 
echo $PATH

By using gzip -dc [FILE] | grep -i [STRING] This command is useful to grep the word from all compressed files only, but my query is different. I want to grep and display the list of file names that contain the word from all compressed files. I tried to used zgrep but i am getting this error

# zgrep 'fnsrr' *.gz
ksh: zgrep:  not found.

Can you explain more on why zgrep from gzip rpm is not working ? What is the error/problem you are facing ?

Hi Ayappan,

I have already installed the gzip package but no use , nothing is working 

You can install gzip rpm from AIX Toolbox and get the zgrep tool. 

On many systems, there is a tool called zgrep which is used to grep content from compressed files. Is there any similar tool available on AIX? My purpose is to grep a particular word from multiple compressed files and display the filenames that contain that word on an AIX server. Could you suggest the best RPM package or another command to solve this issue?

Hi Ayappan,

I have already installed the gzip package but no use , nothing is working 

You can install gzip rpm from AIX Toolbox and get the zgrep tool. 

On many systems, there is a tool called zgrep which is used to grep content from compressed files. Is there any similar tool available on AIX? My purpose is to grep a particular word from multiple compressed files and display the filenames that contain that word on an AIX server. Could you suggest the best RPM package or another command to solve this issue?