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in thread grep gz files

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 :)

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Re^3: grep gz files
by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 28, 2009 at 07:43 UTC
    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.

Re^3: grep gz files
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 28, 2009 at 06:30 UTC
    Using zgrep from perl is a method in perl