Un*x User might prefer zgrep or one of the other *greps:

tomk32@tomk32 ~$ apropos grep
bzegrep (1)          - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a re
+gular expression
bzfgrep (1)          - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a re
+gular expression
bzgrep (1)           - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a re
+gular expression
egrep (1)            - print lines matching a pattern
exigrep (8)          - program to extract information from exim logs
fgrep (1)            - print lines matching a pattern
grep (1)             - print lines matching a pattern
pgrep (1)            - look up or signal processes based on name and o
+ther attributes
rgrep (1)            - print lines matching a pattern
zegrep (1)           - search possibly compressed files for a regular 
+expression
zfgrep (1)           - search possibly compressed files for a regular 
+expression
zgrep (1)            - search possibly compressed files for a regular 
+expression
zipgrep (1)          - search files in a ZIP archive for lines matchin
+g a pattern
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package Lizard::King;
sub can { do { 'anything'} };
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