Re: recursive grep and openoffice

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

John O Laoi wrote:

Hello,


|The problem is that this does not search within  .odt  openoffice files.|

I sometimes need to find a file, and I only know of some text contained therein. |It will located any .doc files that contain the string, but not openoffice files.|

You mean MS-word? How do you do that?

|Has anybody got a solution that will recursively search a directory looking for a file that contains some specified text, and will search within openoffice file?|

What about


Sjoerd

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find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want to find"\; -print

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