Hi Kieth, Give 'antiword' a try.
antiword -t document.doc ...will convert it to text on a console. From there pipe it, save it, search it, ...plenty of options. cheers, Marcel On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:17 -0700, Keith Robinson wrote: > is "tree" the path to my Mail folder? (btw, I understood why the tools > weren't > working) > > -- > Keith > > > On January 4, 2006 12:19 pm, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote: > > > My set up is kmail/ Maildir. AFAIK attachments are kept with the mail in > > > Kmail, instead of separately. But when I use my normal search tools -- > > > grep, Konqueror Tools, I can not find known strings. > > > > That's because word documents are binary data. > > > > You could try using strings on each file, and piping the ouput through > > grep. > > > > for f in `tree -if`; do echo $f; strings $f | grep whatIAmLookingFor; done; > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
