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?

Try gzip -dc [FILE] | grep -i [STRING]

Doubt you will need to install anything.

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 Alexander,
I have already installed the gzip package and tried this command:
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 file names that contain the word from all compressed files.

Try gzip -dc [FILE] | grep -i [STRING]

Doubt you will need to install anything.

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 Alexander,
I have already installed the gzip package and tried this command:
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 file names that contain the word from all compressed files.

Try gzip -dc [FILE] | grep -i [STRING]

Doubt you will need to install anything.

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?

I am near allergic to installing anything so I would do something like

for FILE in $(ls *.gz) ; do
    gzip -dc ${FILE} | grep -ci [STRING] >/dev/null
    if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] ; then
        echo ${FILE}
    fi
done

if you do it the other way I would make sure that you explicitly test the "zgrep" exists on the system in your script.

Going to save this to my interview questions list.

Hi Alexander,
I have already installed the gzip package and tried this command:
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 file names that contain the word from all compressed files.

Try gzip -dc [FILE] | grep -i [STRING]

Doubt you will need to install anything.

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?

I am near allergic to installing anything so I would do something like

for FILE in $(ls *.gz) ; do
    gzip -dc ${FILE} | grep -ci [STRING] >/dev/null
    if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] ; then
        echo ${FILE}
    fi
done

if you do it the other way I would make sure that you explicitly test the "zgrep" exists on the system in your script.

Going to save this to my interview questions list.

Hi Alexander,
I have already installed the gzip package and tried this command:
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 file names that contain the word from all compressed files.

Try gzip -dc [FILE] | grep -i [STRING]

Doubt you will need to install anything.

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?

Hello,

is the shell glob option disabled or why the $(ls *) construct? What if the filename containes spaces? grep also knows the -q option.  This would be then in ksh93:

for FILE in *.gz  ; do gzip -dc "$FILE"  | grep -q <string> && print "$FILE" ; done

Best regards

I am near allergic to installing anything so I would do something like

for FILE in $(ls *.gz) ; do
    gzip -dc ${FILE} | grep -ci [STRING] >/dev/null
    if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] ; then
        echo ${FILE}
    fi
done

if you do it the other way I would make sure that you explicitly test the "zgrep" exists on the system in your script.

Going to save this to my interview questions list.

Hi Alexander,
I have already installed the gzip package and tried this command:
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 file names that contain the word from all compressed files.

Try gzip -dc [FILE] | grep -i [STRING]

Doubt you will need to install anything.

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?