Scratching your own itch @mattgodbolt / @mattgodbolt My problem 5000+ read-only archived JSON log files on NFS Average 450MiB gzipped, 4GiB uncompressed Need to find entries by a unique ID zgrep $ zgrep -E '^\{"eventId":63181572,' audit.log.gz {"eventId":63181572,...} Takes 14 seconds zgrep has to uncompress every byte of the file to search it! Could index file ...but then would need to be able to