Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Somebody gave me a script. I find it very useful for finding a word or 
phrase within my odt documents. I hope this helps.

Ubuntu 14.04

Don Pobanz

don@PC-002:~/Documents/Sermons$ cat search_odt_files
#!/bin/bash
# run this script by typing the following
# sh search_odt_files "this string"
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
    echo "Usage: searchodt searchterm"
    exit 1
fi
# added */ in front of *.odt to search subdirectories of a directory
for file in $(ls */*.odt); do
    unzip -ca "$file" content.xml | grep -ql "$1"
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "$file"
    fi
done
don@PC-002:~/Documents/Sermons$




On 08/24/2014 08:25 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Which platform?
>
> If you are on Gnu&Linux then some sort of grep command on the command line
> might be an optimally efficient route.
>
> I am assuming your searching the contents rather than just searching for a
> file-name as a file-name search would be fairly trivial in any OS wouldn't
> it?
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
> On 24 August 2014 12:30, Maurice <maurice@bcs.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Given a list of documents, is there a convenient way of doing a Find on
> > the whole set of documents in the list?
> >
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