Grep Gzipped Log Files

Sep 10, 2010 · 1 minute read
Category: linux

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If you need to grep through some archived log files in gz format - don’t be extracting them and then using grep to search, just use zgrep to grep them directly.

Easy!


zgrep 'my_search_string' access_log.processed.1.gz > zgrep_results && less zgrep_results