On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 08:50 -0400, Andrew Fisk wrote:
> If Google Toolbar works for Windows users, and Mac users can use  
> Spotlight, I think that we are leaving the *nix users out in the cold  
> with the find, sed unzip option, but being wonderful thing that open  
> source is, google comes up with all kind of interesting looking tools  
> for indexing & searching documents -- all for free!
> 
> As an alternative, and I know this may seem a little old fashioned,  
> but I have a folder for my customer info -- and a folder inside that  
> for each customer and then folders for each project -- it makes  
> finding things fairly easy and it's the one folder I KNOW is going to  
> be backed up.
> 

Searching for the rest of us can be done within OOo for the most part:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/
http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html
http://www.danielnaber.de/loook/

Docsearcher is standalone and platform independent.  For more use, google. I got
Results 1 - 10 of about 111,000 for search tools for odt files?. (0.39
seconds) 


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