Grep on .odt files
 

Hi

How to do grep on .odt files?

Many thanks

My read is that you cannot do this. Try viewing an ODT file for starters and you'll see that they are encoded in a non-ASCII visible manner; therefore you cannot run simple grep to accomplish what you're looking for.

I took a quick look at LibreOffice Writer and while one can search, and search well "within" an open document, you cannot do that over multiple documents or have the concept of a Project containing multiple documents where you could search through the scope of all project files. There are macro capabilities for LibreOffice Writer, I don't know if they'd allow you to process multiple documents though.

ODT files are ZIP files containing a structure of files and directories. You can unzip them. The text is in xml format in content.xml.