>I don't know of a tool that greps Office files per se, but you can use the >"antiword" package to transform your Word documents into text and pipe the >output to the regular grep... > Igor
Cute tool, which I have now installed from http://www.gknw.de/mirror/antiword/antiword-0.34-w32.zip (not a part of cygwin?) But I'm still looking for an office files compatible grep zzapper -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/