Hi. I use a gui tool (the Kde "find files") to find text inside documents.
I'm informed that one command line tool is sed.
There's a learned (?) discussion of such matters here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=460195
Linda L. Hull wrote:
I'm using Ubuntu Dapper and Open Office Writer 2.02 on Gnome.
Is there a utility for searching inside Open Office .doc and other
extensions? I prefer command line to GUI for most things.
I want to look for keywords in .doc, .rtf or any of the Open Office
.xtw etc. things.
How I currently find files is:$ ls myfilename*
or : grep word(s) *file* | less
This works fine for vi(m) files, but not .doc etc.
When ls comes back with a list, I select the .doc or whatever
Open Office file that I think might have what I want in it.
Then open the file and use <control> f to look for the word(s).
Is there a better way to do this?
Since upgrading from breezy to dapper, there is no longer a window
in 'Open File' to enter the file names to.
There IS a box that automatically opens when I click there
and start to type, but when I have a file name to paste,
to find, I have to type some random letter in there, to open
the box, then quickly paste my file name and then delete the letter.
If the file exists, it finds it, I can click to open it.
A bug?
Linda
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