Grep on catdoc

ns1971 · 07-14-2014, 04:21 AM

Hi

I am new to using linux. I am trying to use catdoc grep for a list of phrases on word documents.

The syntax below gives me the matches found in the document but not the file name. Please can anybody help me with the syntax that will show the file name and the matches found.

find . -iname "*.doc" -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file; do catdoc "$file" | grep -i -w -f ~tmp/test.txt; done

Many thanks

linosaurusroot · 07-14-2014, 07:02 AM

This adds a "&& echo ::: $file" to the command:

Code:

find . -iname "*.doc" -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file; do catdoc "$file" | grep -i -w -f ~tmp/test.txt && echo ::: $file; done

ns1971 · 07-14-2014, 08:32 AM

Thank you very much for the quick reply. This works fine.