Would "zgrep" help? This is a grep that is designed to search through compressed files (as well as "normal" files). Obviously I haven't tried this myself.
Bill Leach RWMC Publications 526-4267 Pager 4165 -----Original Message----- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:58 PM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Search in PPT and presentation files > I have about 80 PowerPoint and OpenDocument Presentation files. They > contain about 120 slides each. What I am looking for is a way to > search for a string in all files; something like grep which tells me > the file and slide where the string occured. > > Does anyone know such an app? > > OO.org is too slow, as opening one file needs about one minute to > open. I tried unzipping the ODP files and grepping its content.xml, > which is not too helpful because all the content is in one line. And > this won't help me with the powerpoint files anyway. That's alot of slides. One suggestion would be some stand alone document indexer that caters for OOo file types : http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/ The other would be google desktop searcher + OOo plugin : http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/indextheopenoffice.html I don't believe that either of the above would actually identify the specific slide that the search string appears on, but it would narrow the search to the file at least. Once done you could use OOo search (once the file is opened) to find the slide. HTH, /paul -- Vista is "dramatically more secure than any other operating system released" Bill Gates Huh ?? Defender doesn't stop spyware (Webroot) ; firewall is only 50% effective (Zdnet) ; UAC can be turned off and is annoying ; SP1 (incl security reasons) due end of 2007... ----- Try Torpark; a small portable, open-source, built on Firefox browser that enables anonymous browsing. Requires no installation : http://www.torrify.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
