Hi,

when I have a collection of documents created with
openoffice/libreoffice writer and want to search through them for
strings contained in the text, how do I do that? Is there some
equivalent for grep that works on such files?


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Hi

Google is your friend :P

http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sf-archives/archives-programming-scripting/337622-using-grep-openoffice-files.html

"
The openoffice file (something.odt) is a zip file with a collection of
files that make up the document inside. One of these files is a .XML
file called contents.xml that contains the actual text of your
document.
"

You can create un script to unzip the file and then "grep" the xml content

Best regards

Juan
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2011/6/16 lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>:
> Hi,
>
> when I have a collection of documents created with
> openoffice/libreoffice writer and want to search through them for
> strings contained in the text, how do I do that? Is there some
> equivalent for grep that works on such files?
>
>
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or you can use zgrep

zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

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2011/6/16 Juan Sierra Pons <juan@elsotanillo.net>:
> Hi
>
> Google is your friend :P
>
> http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sf-archives/archives-programming-scripting/337622-using-grep-openoffice-files.html
>
> "
> The openoffice file (something.odt) is a zip file with a collection of
> files that make up the document inside. One of these files is a .XML
> file called contents.xml that contains the actual text of your
> document.
> "
>
> You can create un script to unzip the file and then "grep" the xml content
>
> Best regards
>
> Juan
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> 2011/6/16 lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when I have a collection of documents created with
>> openoffice/libreoffice writer and want to search through them for
>> strings contained in the text, how do I do that? Is there some
>> equivalent for grep that works on such files?
>>
>>
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:06:27 +0200, lee wrote:

> when I have a collection of documents created with
> openoffice/libreoffice writer and want to search through them for
> strings contained in the text, how do I do that? Is there some
> equivalent for grep that works on such files?

Google also finds some premade scripts from the competition :-)

Search multiple .odt files
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=899179

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On 06/16/2011 10:06 AM, lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I have a collection of documents created with
> openoffice/libreoffice writer and want to search through them for
> strings contained in the text, how do I do that? Is there some
> equivalent for grep that works on such files?
>

I use the recoll package for searching for terms of all kinds of
files Including OpenOffice/libreoffice files.

HTH
Wayne


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