bzegrep behaviour not consistent with egrep?

[Parv]

in message <20051020194725.GA10376 at ns.museum.rain.com>,
wrote James Long thusly...
>
> Should these two commands produce identical output?
> 
> $ bzegrep "38436|41640" /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 | wc -l
>        0
> $ bzcat /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 | egrep "38436|41640" | wc -l
>      121

And more fun, try also "egrep -J| wc", which is similar to the 2d
case above.  Seems like the first "e" in "bzegrep" is erroneous.


  - Parv

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