Sorry for my ignorance, zutils solves the issue.
** Changed in: gzip (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1165740
Title:
zgrep recursive search not w
Public bug reported:
Grep Version: 2.12
Ubuntu Version: 12.10
Running "zgrep -r" reports the following message:
/bin/zgrep: -r: option not supported
Since the man page for zgrep indicates that all options are passed
directly to grep I would assume that all grep options are supported by
zgrep. I