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 <paulsteyn1@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 +0000 (UTC)
> Maurice <maurice@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...)
>
>
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