diff --git a/R/parse.R b/R/parse.R
index 31d4535..a449845 100644
--- a/R/parse.R
+++ b/R/parse.R
@@ -197,7 +197,9 @@ get.p2p.log <- function(bitmonero.dir = "~/.bitmonero", output.file = NULL) {
 #' With default arguments, this function accomplishes the same thing as this
 #' Linux shell call:
 #' ```
-#' zgrep -a 'net.p2p.msg' bitmonero.log* > extracted-xmr-log; xz extracted-xmr-log;
+#' grep -I "net.p2p.msg" bitmonero.log* > extracted-xmr-log
+#' for file in bitmonero.log*.tar.gz; do tar xf "$file" --to-command 'egrep -Ha --label="$TAR_FILENAME" "net.p2p.msg" || true' >> extracted-xmr-log; done
+#' xz extracted-xmr-log
 #' ```
 #'
 #'
diff --git a/man/compress.log.Rd b/man/compress.log.Rd
index 2f198dd..0a641a7 100644
--- a/man/compress.log.Rd
+++ b/man/compress.log.Rd
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ NULL (invisible)
 With default arguments, this function accomplishes the same thing as this
 Linux shell call:
 
-\if{html}{\out{<div class="sourceCode">}}\preformatted{zgrep -a 'net.p2p.msg' bitmonero.log* > extracted-xmr-log; xz extracted-xmr-log;
+\if{html}{\out{<div class="sourceCode">}}\preformatted{grep -I "net.p2p.msg" bitmonero.log* > extracted-xmr-log
+for file in bitmonero.log*.tar.gz; do tar xf "$file" --to-command 'egrep -Ha --label="$TAR_FILENAME" "net.p2p.msg" || true' >> extracted-xmr-log; done
+xz extracted-xmr-log
 }\if{html}{\out{</div>}}
 }
 \examples{