Compression Speed vs Ratio | Decompression Speed
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+ | 
| Method | Compression ratio | Compression speed | Decompression speed |
|:-------|------------------:|-------------------------:|---------------------------:|
[Silesia compression corpus]: http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia
| Method | Compression ratio | Compression speed | Decompression speed |
-|:-------|------------------:|-------------------------:|---------------------------:|
-| `zstd -1` | `2.878` | `231.7 MB/s` | `594.4 MB/s` |
-| `zstd -1 --long` | `2.929` | `106.5 MB/s` | `517.9 MB/s` |
-| `zstd -5` | `3.274` | `77.1 MB/s` | `464.2 MB/s` |
-| `zstd -5 --long` | `3.319` | `51.7 MB/s` | `371.9 MB/s` |
-| `zstd -10` | `3.523` | `16.4 MB/s` | `489.2 MB/s` |
-| `zstd -10 --long`| `3.566` | `16.2 MB/s` | `415.7 MB/s` |
+|:-------|------------------:|------------------:|---------------------:|
+| `zstd -1` | `2.878` | `231.7 MB/s` | `594.4 MB/s` |
+| `zstd -1 --long` | `2.929` | `106.5 MB/s` | `517.9 MB/s` |
+| `zstd -5` | `3.274` | `77.1 MB/s` | `464.2 MB/s` |
+| `zstd -5 --long` | `3.319` | `51.7 MB/s` | `371.9 MB/s` |
+| `zstd -10` | `3.523` | `16.4 MB/s` | `489.2 MB/s` |
+| `zstd -10 --long`| `3.566` | `16.2 MB/s` | `415.7 MB/s` |
+
+
+#### zstdgrep
+
+`zstdgrep` is a utility which makes it possible to `grep` directly a `.zst` compressed file.
+It's used the same way as normal `grep`, for example :
+`zstdgrep pattern file.zst`
+
+`zstdgrep` is _not_ compatible with dictionary compression.
+
+To search into a file compressed with a dictionary,
+it's necessary to decompress it using `zstd` or `zstdcat`,
+and then pipe the result to `grep`. For example :
+`zstdcat -D dictionary -qc -- file.zst | grep pattern`