Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
At 16:30 12/09/2014 +, Maurice Noname wrote: I've just started looking into Master Documents, although I have a suspicion it would be a 'sledgehammer to crack a walnut'. After studying the info I felt confident enough to try a test, but struck a rock almost immediately: I made a small file with just one line of text, did File/Send/Master Document, got taken to the filename enter box (filter showed ODF Master Document), entered testmaster and hit 'Save'. Result: Error window saying Can't create document. No hint of why not, ... I suppose the first culprit would be permissions in the appropriate folder: do you have rights to create files there? ... so not sure what to try next... o Save your small file first. o Create a new master document through File | New or the drop-down next to the New button. o Use Insert | File in the Navigator to insert your small file. (Presumably there is some minimum structure missing, but what?!) I can insert an empty file into a master document using either technique, so I think not. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Hi :) Blimey! I can't believe how many different ways of doing it have been suggested and how many answers this thread has received. Brilliant work everyone! I learn tons through this thread and really enjoyed it. Many thanks and regards from Tom :) On 31 August 2014 18:30, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it doesn't work in Linux, but LO's 'Find-Replace' works with multiple documents for me; [still with 3.4 ] The only thing that never worked is the 'Find', for some reason ;-) I'll click on that one by mistake at times, only to have the document sit doing nothing ... then I click on the Find-Replace and can find, or whatever, fine ;-) Was this a bug back-then or what? From: Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents? To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 08/30/2014 07:34 AM, James Wilde wrote: On 2014-08-30 13:29, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit. Tom, I have an idea that there is a find/copy/paste add-on for LO which works on multiple files. I used it when I was using LO for my writing (I now use Scrivener for books and such). I could change the name of a character throughout a book with a simple command. James Yes, I remember something like that as well, but I do not remember what it was or what version of LO it was used with. That would be real handy for book authors and editors. Piers Anthony, a highly regarded SciFi and Fantasy writer, used Fedora and LO for writing his books. He is in his mid 70's now so he has scaled back to 1 or 2 books per year, instead of 3 or more. He has created macros to help him do the work he needs and uses a different keyboard layout than the standard QWERTY keyboard. In one of his Author's Notes, he stated that he needed a package that worked with his type of keyboard and had the ability to create/use the types of macros he needs for making his writing easier. He seems to be a big fan of having multiple documents open at the same time and editing across those documents. SO, you should be able to find the extension needed for your cross-document editing. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Here's another one that's not quite clean, but it's nicer than the original: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/how-to-search-for-text-inside-many-opendocument-files/ Cheers. MR On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Blimey! I can't believe how many different ways of doing it have been suggested and how many answers this thread has received. Brilliant work everyone! I learn tons through this thread and really enjoyed it. Many thanks and regards from Tom :) On 31 August 2014 18:30, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it doesn't work in Linux, but LO's 'Find-Replace' works with multiple documents for me; [still with 3.4 ] The only thing that never worked is the 'Find', for some reason ;-) I'll click on that one by mistake at times, only to have the document sit doing nothing ... then I click on the Find-Replace and can find, or whatever, fine ;-) Was this a bug back-then or what? From: Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents? To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 08/30/2014 07:34 AM, James Wilde wrote: On 2014-08-30 13:29, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit. Tom, I have an idea that there is a find/copy/paste add-on for LO which works on multiple files. I used it when I was using LO for my writing (I now use Scrivener for books and such). I could change the name of a character throughout a book with a simple command. James Yes, I remember something like that as well, but I do not remember what it was or what version of LO it was used with. That would be real handy for book authors and editors. Piers Anthony, a highly regarded SciFi and Fantasy writer, used Fedora and LO for writing his books. He is in his mid 70's now so he has scaled back to 1 or 2 books per year, instead of 3 or more. He has created macros to help him do the work he needs and uses a different keyboard layout than the standard QWERTY keyboard. In one of his Author's Notes, he stated that he needed a package that worked with his type of keyboard and had the ability to create/use the types of macros he needs for making his writing easier. He seems to be a big fan of having multiple documents open at the same time and editing across those documents. SO, you should be able to find the extension needed for your cross-document editing. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Maybe it doesn't work in Linux, but LO's 'Find-Replace' works with multiple documents for me; [still with 3.4 ] The only thing that never worked is the 'Find', for some reason ;-) I'll click on that one by mistake at times, only to have the document sit doing nothing ... then I click on the Find-Replace and can find, or whatever, fine ;-) Was this a bug back-then or what? From: Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents? To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 08/30/2014 07:34 AM, James Wilde wrote: On 2014-08-30 13:29, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit. Tom, I have an idea that there is a find/copy/paste add-on for LO which works on multiple files. I used it when I was using LO for my writing (I now use Scrivener for books and such). I could change the name of a character throughout a book with a simple command. James Yes, I remember something like that as well, but I do not remember what it was or what version of LO it was used with. That would be real handy for book authors and editors. Piers Anthony, a highly regarded SciFi and Fantasy writer, used Fedora and LO for writing his books. He is in his mid 70's now so he has scaled back to 1 or 2 books per year, instead of 3 or more. He has created macros to help him do the work he needs and uses a different keyboard layout than the standard QWERTY keyboard. In one of his Author's Notes, he stated that he needed a package that worked with his type of keyboard and had the ability to create/use the types of macros he needs for making his writing easier. He seems to be a big fan of having multiple documents open at the same time and editing across those documents. SO, you should be able to find the extension needed for your cross-document editing. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Hi :) Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit. With GEdit i could; 1. select all 10 files, 2. right-click to open in GEdit, 3. do the search in any of the documents 4. Ctrl z to close that document and arrive in the next automatically 5. when i open the find dialogue it already has the search criteria i used in the last document Sadly with Writer i'd have to copypaste the criteria each time. I guess that's another argument in favour of tabbed UI Regards from Tom :) On 30 August 2014 12:01, Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:35:05 +1200, Steve Edmonds wrote: There could be a feature request. In the existing find and replace dialogue to have an option All open documents. Mmm. Will take a look at how to make such a request. You need only have the documents opened in LO and working on multiple documents you can search and replace them as one. Well, if, say, there are 10 documents in the list to be searched, how would one open all 10 conveniently? -- /\/\aurice -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
On 2014-08-30 13:29, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit. Tom, I have an idea that there is a find/copy/paste add-on for LO which works on multiple files. I used it when I was using LO for my writing (I now use Scrivener for books and such). I could change the name of a character throughout a book with a simple command. James -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
On 08/30/2014 07:34 AM, James Wilde wrote: On 2014-08-30 13:29, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit. Tom, I have an idea that there is a find/copy/paste add-on for LO which works on multiple files. I used it when I was using LO for my writing (I now use Scrivener for books and such). I could change the name of a character throughout a book with a simple command. James Yes, I remember something like that as well, but I do not remember what it was or what version of LO it was used with. That would be real handy for book authors and editors. Piers Anthony, a highly regarded SciFi and Fantasy writer, used Fedora and LO for writing his books. He is in his mid 70's now so he has scaled back to 1 or 2 books per year, instead of 3 or more. He has created macros to help him do the work he needs and uses a different keyboard layout than the standard QWERTY keyboard. In one of his Author's Notes, he stated that he needed a package that worked with his type of keyboard and had the ability to create/use the types of macros he needs for making his writing easier. He seems to be a big fan of having multiple documents open at the same time and editing across those documents. SO, you should be able to find the extension needed for your cross-document editing. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit. With GEdit i could; 1. select all 10 files, 2. right-click to open in GEdit, 3. do the search in any of the documents 4. Ctrl z to close that document and arrive in the next automatically 5. when i open the find dialogue it already has the search criteria i used in the last document Sadly with Writer i'd have to copypaste the criteria each time. I guess that's another argument in favour of tabbed UI Regards from Tom :) I am sure I'm not quite following what is ultimately wanted but about opening multiple copies, but suppose I have a directory containing the desired files, say, 1.doc, 2.doc, Another.doc; is there a verbot against going into the directory and doing soffice *.doc at the commandline? or does this not work? but pardon and ignore me if I'm way off-target. F. On 30 August 2014 12:01, Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:35:05 +1200, Steve Edmonds wrote: There could be a feature request. In the existing find and replace dialogue to have an option All open documents. Mmm. Will take a look at how to make such a request. You need only have the documents opened in LO and working on multiple documents you can search and replace them as one. Well, if, say, there are 10 documents in the list to be searched, how would one open all 10 conveniently? -- /\/\aurice -- Felmon Davis Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. -- Horace -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Hi :) I think i'd first try just dragging a couple of the relevant files into an empty document and see if that is enough to do what you need. I thought that was all the Master Documents did but i guess there is a lot more to it! Regards from Tom :) On 28 August 2014 14:41, Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:59:45 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Chapter 13 Working with Master Documents might help! Thanks for the pointer, Tom! (At first glance it looks somewhat tedious, but it might do the trick.) -- /\/\aurice -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
2014-08-28 16:01 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com: I thought that was all the Master Documents did but i guess there is a lot more to it! One of the great feature of master documents is overriding styles from sub documents. With that you can have for example a whole book written with a set of files, and different master documents that will format it for printing, pdf, multi-column, etc... (not that this is relevant at all for OP's problem, just a head up!) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Hi :) It might be easier to just start figuring out Master Documents! At least there is documentation for it! If you create a new document or open an existing one can you still see the file-browser? (ie so that you can still see the icons of various different files?) If you can see the files then try dragging one of those files into the document you have opened. LibreOffice will create a new section for the extra document. Regards from Tom :) On 28 August 2014 16:31, Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:01:21 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: try just dragging a couple of the relevant files into an empty document By what means are you thinking, Tom?! -- /\/\aurice -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Hi :) +1 same thing i was suggesting but a slightly different process. Regards from Tom :) On 28 August 2014 18:09, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It might be easier to just start figuring out Master Documents! At least there is documentation for it! If you create a new document or open an existing one can you still see the file-browser? (ie so that you can still see the icons of various different files?) If you can see the files then try dragging one of those files into the document you have opened. LibreOffice will create a new section for the extra document. Regards from Tom :) I may have lost the point of the thread but if one is going to these lengths, why not simply _insert_ the other documents into one and do one's search? 'insert--file--...' what is the drawback to this? F. On 28 August 2014 16:31, Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:01:21 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: try just dragging a couple of the relevant files into an empty document By what means are you thinking, Tom?! -- /\/\aurice -- Felmon Davis The world is in danger from two sources: Order and Disorder. -- Valery -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
There could be a feature request. In the existing find and replace dialogue to have an option All open documents. You need only have the documents opened in LO and working on multiple documents you can search and replace them as one. Steve On 2014-08-29 05:31, Maurice wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:09:06 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote: why not simply _insert_ the other documents into one and do one's search? 'insert--file--...' Whether using Tom's suggestion of drag-'n-drop or yours to 'Insert file', both would bee tedious when several files are often involved, but would be usable in the occasional general case. The particular requirement is for a routine search through the same set of files, with the requirement that the contents are the latest version in each case, so for convenience it needs to be a pre-defined list. It may be that the Master Document facility will allow me to have a master document that permanently lists that set of files, and brings their current contents in dynamically whenever the master document is opened. Will look further into that; I'm hoping that the contents of each file are not frozen at the time when they are first inserted into the master. Thanks to all for pointing out so many options! Much appreciated... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
2014-08-27 13:15 GMT+02:00 Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk: The simplest way would presumably be to write an app that would create a temporary composite document from a list, and do the Find through that. I don't know if that's what you meant, but it might be possible to achieve this through a macro inside LibreOffice. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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Hi :) I guess that would be another way of doing it. A bit of a shame after there have been so many different coding ways of doing it! Chapter 13 Working with Master Documents might help! https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide Regards from Tom :) On 27 August 2014 13:46, Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:23:23 +0200, Cley Faye wrote: it might be possible to achieve this through a macro inside LibreOffice. That sounds interesting!. Actually, many years ago I was using a word processor which (like some assembler languages) accepted an 'include file' control. Ideally I would have a master file just containing, e.g. %include filename-A %include filename-B etc... - which I would then give to Writer, which would then pull in the contents of those files to produce the composite document I need. -- /\/\aurice -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:46:53 + (UTC) Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:29:22 +0200, Paul wrote: You could also make a script to pull the contents of all the files and concatenate them in such a way that you can use Writer to do find inside one big document, but that would be considerably harder. Try this first. That's what I shall perhaps finish up doing... Any particular reason? Did the arguments to grep not work, or do you just not find that style of output particularly useful? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Well, Maurice quoted from my mail, so I'm pretty sure he did receive it. Btw: Tom, your mail was addressed to me directly, and CCd to the group, causing my default reply-to to go to just you (luckily I noticed in time). Not sure why this happens for some messages, did you do anything differently for your message? On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:41:14 +0100 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I suspect that Paul's post below has not yet arrived in Maurice's time-line. Email threads sometimes get a bit disjointed, especially if an over-enthusiastic junk/spam-filter tends to carefully reject anything with any hint of code in it! However it could easily be that someone starts from their older messages and work forwards to newer and newer ones instead of the more sensible approach (imo) of working from the newest posts backwards to the oldest. By starting with the newest ones first i often find that older posts have already been dealt with and can thus be safely ignored even if they stir-up side-issues (which also might have already been largely dealt with). On the other hand it might be good if someone could test Paul's script. Perhaps it's possible to combine the 2 ideas so that both the file-name AND the few lines of surrounding text could be output? Would that help? Also it might be good to have the output directed into a file rather than just onto the command-line? I really like Don Pobanz's answer and the way Paul was able to help tweak it. It felt like a return to what this mailing list is largely about = collaborating to build-up a better answer faster than the individuals had time to do on their own. Good work!! :))) Regards from Tom :) On 24 August 2014 19:29, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Try changing the line: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -ql $1 to: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -qC 10 $1 the -l to grep makes it show only the names of files that match, not the content. The -C # gives # lines of context around the match. Or you could use -B # and -A # to print # lines of leading and trailing conext, respectively. You could also make a script to pull the contents of all the files and concatenate them in such a way that you can use Writer to do find inside one big document, but that would be considerably harder. Try this first. Paul Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested this, just done a man grep, but I think the syntax is right... On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:16:35 + (UTC) Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:44:31 -0500, Don Pobanz wrote: I find it very useful for finding a word or phrase within my odt documents. Thank you, Don, but that only shows which files contain the search string. (It's likely that all files in the list will contain at least one occurrence of the string.) That would be a start, but what I am looking for is a means of seeing the string as if Writer was showing the file contents, so that I can see the surrounding text. (Equivalent to joining all the doc's into one big file, then doing a Find. Perhaps I shall have to do the joining manually...) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Hi :) Nope, it;s the standard way these mailing lists have behaved for a long time now. It used to be that people could just click on Reply to and their message would go straight to the mailing list. Now most email-clients require people to click on Reply to all ... and the mailing list's address is only in the CC rather than in the To field. Numerous people have grumbled about it in here but few bother to post a complaint to the postmaster address and those that do just seem to get agro for it. One person here did try to show how he re-configured his own email-client to get around the problem and a few of the other longer-term people here might well have followed his lead but i am not sure what effect that sort of thing has on non-LO emails. Also i kinda believe in the Eat your own dog food principle so that i stay in touch with the problems normal users have when they first approach this mailing list. Regards from Tom :) On 25 August 2014 13:56, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Well, Maurice quoted from my mail, so I'm pretty sure he did receive it. Btw: Tom, your mail was addressed to me directly, and CCd to the group, causing my default reply-to to go to just you (luckily I noticed in time). Not sure why this happens for some messages, did you do anything differently for your message? On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:41:14 +0100 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I suspect that Paul's post below has not yet arrived in Maurice's time-line. Email threads sometimes get a bit disjointed, especially if an over-enthusiastic junk/spam-filter tends to carefully reject anything with any hint of code in it! However it could easily be that someone starts from their older messages and work forwards to newer and newer ones instead of the more sensible approach (imo) of working from the newest posts backwards to the oldest. By starting with the newest ones first i often find that older posts have already been dealt with and can thus be safely ignored even if they stir-up side-issues (which also might have already been largely dealt with). On the other hand it might be good if someone could test Paul's script. Perhaps it's possible to combine the 2 ideas so that both the file-name AND the few lines of surrounding text could be output? Would that help? Also it might be good to have the output directed into a file rather than just onto the command-line? I really like Don Pobanz's answer and the way Paul was able to help tweak it. It felt like a return to what this mailing list is largely about = collaborating to build-up a better answer faster than the individuals had time to do on their own. Good work!! :))) Regards from Tom :) On 24 August 2014 19:29, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Try changing the line: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -ql $1 to: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -qC 10 $1 the -l to grep makes it show only the names of files that match, not the content. The -C # gives # lines of context around the match. Or you could use -B # and -A # to print # lines of leading and trailing conext, respectively. You could also make a script to pull the contents of all the files and concatenate them in such a way that you can use Writer to do find inside one big document, but that would be considerably harder. Try this first. Paul Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested this, just done a man grep, but I think the syntax is right... On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:16:35 + (UTC) Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:44:31 -0500, Don Pobanz wrote: I find it very useful for finding a word or phrase within my odt documents. Thank you, Don, but that only shows which files contain the search string. (It's likely that all files in the list will contain at least one occurrence of the string.) That would be a start, but what I am looking for is a means of seeing the string as if Writer was showing the file contents, so that I can see the surrounding text. (Equivalent to joining all the doc's into one big file, then doing a Find. Perhaps I shall have to do the joining manually...) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Hi :) I suspect that Paul's post below has not yet arrived in Maurice's time-line. Email threads sometimes get a bit disjointed, especially if an over-enthusiastic junk/spam-filter tends to carefully reject anything with any hint of code in it! However it could easily be that someone starts from their older messages and work forwards to newer and newer ones instead of the more sensible approach (imo) of working from the newest posts backwards to the oldest. By starting with the newest ones first i often find that older posts have already been dealt with and can thus be safely ignored even if they stir-up side-issues (which also might have already been largely dealt with). On the other hand it might be good if someone could test Paul's script. Perhaps it's possible to combine the 2 ideas so that both the file-name AND the few lines of surrounding text could be output? Would that help? Also it might be good to have the output directed into a file rather than just onto the command-line? I really like Don Pobanz's answer and the way Paul was able to help tweak it. It felt like a return to what this mailing list is largely about = collaborating to build-up a better answer faster than the individuals had time to do on their own. Good work!! :))) Regards from Tom :) On 24 August 2014 19:29, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Try changing the line: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -ql $1 to: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -qC 10 $1 the -l to grep makes it show only the names of files that match, not the content. The -C # gives # lines of context around the match. Or you could use -B # and -A # to print # lines of leading and trailing conext, respectively. You could also make a script to pull the contents of all the files and concatenate them in such a way that you can use Writer to do find inside one big document, but that would be considerably harder. Try this first. Paul Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested this, just done a man grep, but I think the syntax is right... On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:16:35 + (UTC) Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:44:31 -0500, Don Pobanz wrote: I find it very useful for finding a word or phrase within my odt documents. Thank you, Don, but that only shows which files contain the search string. (It's likely that all files in the list will contain at least one occurrence of the string.) That would be a start, but what I am looking for is a means of seeing the string as if Writer was showing the file contents, so that I can see the surrounding text. (Equivalent to joining all the doc's into one big file, then doing a Find. Perhaps I shall have to do the joining manually...) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
If the Python code were modified to also add filename with path and inject it at end of paragraph as URL. It might be possible to re-direct python command output to a .txt file that could be opened by Writer. I am not sure whether or not Writer could be set to recognize and Open File URL automatically to modify original document. Hm On 8/25/2014 10:03 AM, P. . wrote: Try this, even if it isn't exactly an 'out of the box' solution, it can be useful: in few words, the script parses the xml file inside the .odt - in fact an archive file, and search for a keyword after having extracted the text part. A short excerpt, from the page 3 of Extract and Parse ODF Files with Python: In this particular program, I collect all the text as a list of paragraphs, and then I search for the keywords passed in from the command line. If the searched word matches, the paragraph is printed out. The text found in each text:p is Unicode text. You have to convert this to normal text in order to print correctly and/or use in a widget. The encode() command translates the Unicode to a printable string. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9347?page=0,2 On 25 August 2014 15:31, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Well, it does seem like all your mails do this, but not all mails from this list exhibit this behaviour. Most mails from the list, even replies, are addressed to the list. Yours are different in that they're not addressed to the list, only CCd to the list. Some other people's replies are the same, but I'd say not most. When the mail is addressed to the list, or addressed to someone else and CCd to the list, I can just click reply, but when the mail is addressed to me personally and only CCd to the list clicking Reply replies to the sender only. I can only think that it's a difference in email clients and how they handle list messages. The messages contain list headers, so most clients, like mine, must pick that up and automatically reply to the list, but some, like yours, must be ignoring those and replying to the sender instead. I think. So if I'm understanding the process right, it's not so much a problem with how the list is set up (other than that it doesn't rewrite the sender header), but rather with some clients not honouring the list headers. Paul On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:08:01 +0100 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Nope, it;s the standard way these mailing lists have behaved for a long time now. It used to be that people could just click on Reply to and their message would go straight to the mailing list. Now most email-clients require people to click on Reply to all ... and the mailing list's address is only in the CC rather than in the To field. Numerous people have grumbled about it in here but few bother to post a complaint to the postmaster address and those that do just seem to get agro for it. One person here did try to show how he re-configured his own email-client to get around the problem and a few of the other longer-term people here might well have followed his lead but i am not sure what effect that sort of thing has on non-LO emails. Also i kinda believe in the Eat your own dog food principle so that i stay in touch with the problems normal users have when they first approach this mailing list. Regards from Tom :) On 25 August 2014 13:56, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Well, Maurice quoted from my mail, so I'm pretty sure he did receive it. Btw: Tom, your mail was addressed to me directly, and CCd to the group, causing my default reply-to to go to just you (luckily I noticed in time). Not sure why this happens for some messages, did you do anything differently for your message? On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:41:14 +0100 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I suspect that Paul's post below has not yet arrived in Maurice's time-line. Email threads sometimes get a bit disjointed, especially if an over-enthusiastic junk/spam-filter tends to carefully reject anything with any hint of code in it! However it could easily be that someone starts from their older messages and work forwards to newer and newer ones instead of the more sensible approach (imo) of working from the newest posts backwards to the oldest. By starting with the newest ones first i often find that older posts have already been dealt with and can thus be safely ignored even if they stir-up side-issues (which also might have already been largely dealt with). On the other hand it might be good if someone could test Paul's script. Perhaps it's possible to combine the 2 ideas so that both the file-name AND the few lines of surrounding text could be output? Would that help? Also it might be good to have the output directed into a file rather than just onto the command-line? I really like Don Pobanz's answer and the way Paul was able to help tweak it. It felt like a return to what this mailing list is largely about = collaborating to build-up a better answer faster than the
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Paul wrote: Well, it does seem like all your mails do this, but not all mails from this list exhibit this behaviour. Most mails from the list, even replies, are addressed to the list. Yours are different in that they're not addressed to the list, only CCd to the list. Some other people's replies are the same, but I'd say not most. I have to manually remove the OP's address and put the list address in the To: field. it is tiresome. no other list I know (or manage) works this way. I use 'alpine' when posting to the list. I would be happy to write the postmaster; I forget who that is. F. When the mail is addressed to the list, or addressed to someone else and CCd to the list, I can just click reply, but when the mail is addressed to me personally and only CCd to the list clicking Reply replies to the sender only. I can only think that it's a difference in email clients and how they handle list messages. The messages contain list headers, so most clients, like mine, must pick that up and automatically reply to the list, but some, like yours, must be ignoring those and replying to the sender instead. I think. So if I'm understanding the process right, it's not so much a problem with how the list is set up (other than that it doesn't rewrite the sender header), but rather with some clients not honouring the list headers. Paul On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:08:01 +0100 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Nope, it;s the standard way these mailing lists have behaved for a long time now. It used to be that people could just click on Reply to and their message would go straight to the mailing list. Now most email-clients require people to click on Reply to all ... and the mailing list's address is only in the CC rather than in the To field. Numerous people have grumbled about it in here but few bother to post a complaint to the postmaster address and those that do just seem to get agro for it. One person here did try to show how he re-configured his own email-client to get around the problem and a few of the other longer-term people here might well have followed his lead but i am not sure what effect that sort of thing has on non-LO emails. Also i kinda believe in the Eat your own dog food principle so that i stay in touch with the problems normal users have when they first approach this mailing list. Regards from Tom :) On 25 August 2014 13:56, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Well, Maurice quoted from my mail, so I'm pretty sure he did receive it. Btw: Tom, your mail was addressed to me directly, and CCd to the group, causing my default reply-to to go to just you (luckily I noticed in time). Not sure why this happens for some messages, did you do anything differently for your message? On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:41:14 +0100 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I suspect that Paul's post below has not yet arrived in Maurice's time-line. Email threads sometimes get a bit disjointed, especially if an over-enthusiastic junk/spam-filter tends to carefully reject anything with any hint of code in it! However it could easily be that someone starts from their older messages and work forwards to newer and newer ones instead of the more sensible approach (imo) of working from the newest posts backwards to the oldest. By starting with the newest ones first i often find that older posts have already been dealt with and can thus be safely ignored even if they stir-up side-issues (which also might have already been largely dealt with). On the other hand it might be good if someone could test Paul's script. Perhaps it's possible to combine the 2 ideas so that both the file-name AND the few lines of surrounding text could be output? Would that help? Also it might be good to have the output directed into a file rather than just onto the command-line? I really like Don Pobanz's answer and the way Paul was able to help tweak it. It felt like a return to what this mailing list is largely about = collaborating to build-up a better answer faster than the individuals had time to do on their own. Good work!! :))) Regards from Tom :) On 24 August 2014 19:29, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Try changing the line: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -ql $1 to: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -qC 10 $1 the -l to grep makes it show only the names of files that match, not the content. The -C # gives # lines of context around the match. Or you could use -B # and -A # to print # lines of leading and trailing conext, respectively. You could also make a script to pull the contents of all the files and concatenate them in such a way that you can use Writer to do find inside one big document, but that would be considerably harder. Try this first. Paul Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested this, just done a man grep, but I think the syntax is right... On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:16:35 + (UTC) Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Paul wrote: Well, it does seem like all your mails do this, but not all mails from this list exhibit this behaviour. Most mails from the list, even replies, are addressed to the list. Yours are different in that they're not addressed to the list, only CCd to the list. Some other people's replies are the same, but I'd say not most. When the mail is addressed to the list, or addressed to someone else and CCd to the list, I can just click reply, but when the mail is addressed to me personally and only CCd to the list clicking Reply replies to the sender only. I can only think that it's a difference in email clients and how they handle list messages. The messages contain list headers, so most clients, like mine, must pick that up and automatically reply to the list, but some, like yours, must be ignoring those and replying to the sender instead. I think. Indeed. I think Tom tends to Reply All, so you get two copies - one direct and one through the list. If you reply to the direct one, that doesn't have the List-* headers, so will go only to Tom by default. If you reply to the one received through the list, that does have the List-* headers and if your mail client uses them it will reply to the list. In my client, I have to select Reply to List to use the List-Reply header, but it sounds like yours uses it by default if available. So if I'm understanding the process right, it's not so much a problem with how the list is set up (other than that it doesn't rewrite the sender header), but rather with some clients not honouring the list headers. Yep. This list is set up differently from many others, but it is more correct. It shouldn't rewrite the From or Reply-To headers as that causes other problems, particularly as this list accepts emails from non-subscribed users who sometimes request a direct copy of replies. If the From or Reply-To address has been overwritten, it is difficult or even impossible to email or copy someone individually. The Sender header I think would be safe to overwrite, but doing so wouldn't be particularly useful as mail clients don't use it for replies. Mark. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Hi :) I think it's easier to just edit the bash script isn't it? Surely to get it's output into a file all that is needed is something like filename.txt to be added to the end of the relevant lines? or better would be if it could keep adding to the end of a file after first creating the file with the first bit of output. I think Python is a bit of an over-kill for this although it might be really nice to have as a permanent Extension written in a decent language like Python. Regards from Tom :) On 25 August 2014 17:53, Paul D. Mirowsky p_mirow...@bentaxna.com wrote: If the Python code were modified to also add filename with path and inject it at end of paragraph as URL. It might be possible to re-direct python command output to a .txt file that could be opened by Writer. I am not sure whether or not Writer could be set to recognize and Open File URL automatically to modify original document. Hm On 8/25/2014 10:03 AM, P. . wrote: Try this, even if it isn't exactly an 'out of the box' solution, it can be useful: in few words, the script parses the xml file inside the .odt - in fact an archive file, and search for a keyword after having extracted the text part. A short excerpt, from the page 3 of Extract and Parse ODF Files with Python: In this particular program, I collect all the text as a list of paragraphs, and then I search for the keywords passed in from the command line. If the searched word matches, the paragraph is printed out. The text found in each text:p is Unicode text. You have to convert this to normal text in order to print correctly and/or use in a widget. The encode() command translates the Unicode to a printable string. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9347?page=0,2 On 25 August 2014 15:31, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Well, it does seem like all your mails do this, snip / On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:41:14 +0100 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I suspect that Paul's post below has not yet arrived in Maurice's time-line. snip / On the other hand it might be good if someone could test Paul's script. Perhaps it's possible to combine the 2 ideas so that both the file-name AND the few lines of surrounding text could be output? Would that help? Also it might be good to have the output directed into a file rather than just onto the command-line? snip / Regards from Tom :) On 24 August 2014 19:29, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Try changing the line: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -ql $1 to: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -qC 10 $1 the -l to grep makes it show only the names of files that match, not the content. The -C # gives # lines of context around the match. Or you could use -B # and -A # to print # lines of leading and trailing conext, respectively. You could also make a script to pull the contents of all the files and concatenate them in such a way that you can use Writer to do find inside one big document, but that would be considerably harder. Try this first. Paul Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested this, just done a man grep, but I think the syntax is right... On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:16:35 + (UTC) Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:44:31 -0500, Don Pobanz wrote: snip / -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?
Hi :) I could easily be wrong but I think the first echo could use updating? It doesn't affect how it runs or any processing because the echo is only regurgitated into the display for human being to read. It's where you'd put hello world if you wanted the display to just show that. I'm not sure if i've explained that well or just made it as clear as mud because i'm guessing everyone else already knew that, right? Even though it's not processed by the machine and is just for human-readers to see, it's still (imo) handy for it to give the correct information. So, probably change echo Usage: searchodt searchterm to echo Usage: search_odt_filessearchterm or else change the scripts' file-name back to searchodt as it appears to have been as some previous point in the scripts' 'life'. Regards from Tom :) On 24 August 2014 19:29, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Try changing the line: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -ql $1 to: unzip -ca $file content.xml | grep -qC 10 $1 the -l to grep makes it show only the names of files that match, not the content. The -C # gives # lines of context around the match. Or you could use -B # and -A # to print # lines of leading and trailing conext, respectively. You could also make a script to pull the contents of all the files and concatenate them in such a way that you can use Writer to do find inside one big document, but that would be considerably harder. Try this first. Paul Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested this, just done a man grep, but I think the syntax is right... On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:16:35 + (UTC) Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:44:31 -0500, Don Pobanz wrote: I find it very useful for finding a word or phrase within my odt documents. Thank you, Don, but that only shows which files contain the search string. (It's likely that all files in the list will contain at least one occurrence of the string.) That would be a start, but what I am looking for is a means of seeing the string as if Writer was showing the file contents, so that I can see the surrounding text. (Equivalent to joining all the doc's into one big file, then doing a Find. Perhaps I shall have to do the joining manually...) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
