[CLUE-Tech] Grepping bzipped files

[Matt Gushee]

Hi, all--

I'm a packrat when it comes to e-mail. I save *everything*, probably way
longer than I should. And when stuff gets more than a couple of months
old, I bzip2 it to save space. But now and then I need to find some info
in an old mailbox, and often I don't know which one.

Of course I could decompress everything and grep in the normal way, but
that's a big pain in the arse. Does anybody know a grep-like program
that will find strings in a bzipped file, or a convenient pipeline of
regular commands that will accomplish the same purpose?

TIA for your help.
-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee at havenrock.com
http://www.havenrock.com/