bzgrep

Find patterns in bzip2 compressed files using grep. More information: https://manned.org/bzgrep.

bzgrep "search_pattern" path/to/file

bzgrep --extended-regexp --ignore-case "search_pattern" path/to/file

bzgrep --context|before-context|after-context=3 "search_pattern" path/to/file

bzgrep --with-filename --line-number "search_pattern" path/to/file

bzgrep --only-matching "search_pattern" path/to/file

bzgrep --recursive "search_pattern" path/to/tar/file

cat /path/to/bz/compressed/file | bzgrep --invert-match "search_pattern"