Re: recursive grep and openoffice

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:45:42PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090318164208.ga14...@localhost>, Ken Irving wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:19:20AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> I think I'd rewrite it as: > >> find . \ > >> -name '*.odt' \ > >> -exec sh -c 'unzip -c

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

In <20090318164208.ga14...@localhost>, Ken Irving wrote: >On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:19:20AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> I think I'd rewrite it as: >> find . \ >> -name '*.odt' \ >> -exec sh -c 'unzip -c "$1" content.xml | grep -q regex' \{} \; \ >> -print >> >> I'm not sure what the ru

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:19:20AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <1f1816a90903180556k56e3e592qa14c55d1c3193...@mail.gmail.com>, John O > Laoi wrote: > >With respect to the command line, I have fixed on > > > > find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c "{}" content.xml | grep > >"string-

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

In <1f1816a90903180556k56e3e592qa14c55d1c3193...@mail.gmail.com>, John O Laoi wrote: >Thanks for all of your replies. >I didn't know that tools such as tracker would search with openoffice >document. > >With respect to the command line, I have fixed on > > find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

John O Laoi schrieb: > > find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c "{}" content.xml | grep > "string-being sought" > /dev/null' \; -print > For me it works . Maybe you should quote *.odt: '*.odt'. And try just find . -name *.odt to see if the odt files are found. Rainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

recursive grep and openoffice

Thanks for all of your replies. I didn't know that tools such as tracker would search with openoffice document. With respect to the command line, I have fixed on find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c "{}" content.xml | grep "string-being sought" > /dev/null' \; -print but it returns immedia

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> What about >> find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you >> want to find"\; -print > This one is not working, use > find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what > you want to find"' \; -print > inst

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

Bob Cox schrieb: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 15:29:50 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman > (sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl) wrote: > >> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> What about >>> find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want >>> to find"\; -print >> This one is not working, use >> fin

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 15:29:50 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman (sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl) wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> What about >> find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want >> to find"\; -print > This one is not working, use > find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c '

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: What about find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want to find"\; -print This one is not working, use find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want to find"' \; -print instead. Sjoerd -- () ascii ribbon cam

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I sometimes need to find a file, and I only know of some text contained therein. |The problem is that this does not search within .odt openoffice files.| |It will located any .doc files that contain the string, but not openoffice files.| You mean MS-word? How d

recursive grep and openoffice

Hello, I sometimes need to find a file, and I only know of some text contained therein. So I launch a search as follows: $ grep -r "text i am looking for" /home/john OR $ find /home/john -type f -exec grep -i * **"text i am looking for" * '{}' \; -print where /home/john is my home direct