Filtering a long document (rich text format) on red hat server

sysmicuser · 07-16-2012, 09:13 AM

Hi All,

I have got a long doco 228 pages long which is a skype history and I am interested in filtering complete document to search for words called "call" or "call from" and throw the output in another document (must be rtf) is it possible to do so?

I could do easily grep and produced another rtf document, however document has some "\par" strings in it which I don't know what special character they represent?

I work on Rhel server unix box.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks All.

Tinkster · 07-17-2012, 06:33 PM

run "strings" against it
capture the output, filter out known tags
load text file into an office app
save as rtf