zgrep (was: It's 3am and I have no caffeine)

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:46:28 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I am sorry to ask such a newbie question, and my eyes are crossed, no 
> caffeine, and I have try everything on the man pages and my serveral books 
> and I am not getting the answer.
>
> Ok. Here are my two question, and two question they yet be.
>
> I need to know the flag for grep to get the exact phrase, for payne.
>
> when I do grep for payne...I like this...
>
> cpayne
> cepayne
> payne
> apayne
>
> I know it got to be simple.

egrep '\<payne\>' whatever-file.txt

> Also, why can I do this zgrep -c, how can I get a count with zgrep.

Can you post an example of a complete command and the error message that
you get?

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