in reply to grep gz files

Why don't you continue using zgrep?

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Re^2: grep gz files
by rajeshksv37 (Initiate) on Oct 28, 2009 at 06:19 UTC
    I want to know if there is any efficient method in perl which can do this.Using zgrep via system() is same as using bash with perl as a wrapper naa :)
      Using zgrep via system() is same as using bash with perl as a wrapper

      ... where "same" means "fast". I doubt that anything written in Perl will compete with zgrep's speed.

      Using zgrep from perl is a method in perl