zgrep multiple patterns issue
grep
Solution
When matching for multiple patterns, I find it easier to use the -E extension which allowsme to use regexes. Then I can do something like:
zgrep -a -E '*pattern1*|*pattern2*|...' *file*
Problem
I am new in the Linux world and I have an issue I have a lot of files, like 20 of them, which start with the same name only changing a few characters at the end of the name. All this files are in `.tar.gz` format. In this files there are lots of information which are written like this 1234|123415|12356|abcd|abcde|....| I'd like to grep this files looking for matches in all of them, I have more than one pattern and this is where my problem starts Due to the fact that these are .tar.gz files I cannot make a regular grep, and I need a zgrep for this, therefore I found the next code ``` zgrep -a *pattern* *file* ``` Which works fine, but only with one pattern, if I try to use it with multiple patterns it just doesn't work. Can you help me to make something like the next code works: ``` zgrep -a *pattern1* *pattern2* *file* ```