Hi marcel, the problem is separating the document from the e-mail. Once they are separated I can use grep. grep works on a Word doc. I have a maildir folder with one file per e-mail/attachment(s). Hundreds of e-mails in this folder. I need to be able to search them all.
I think Nick hit the nail on the head that my problem isn't the binary Word format but the MIME encoding. -- Keith On January 4, 2006 09:17 pm, Marcel Lecker wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
