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Old 01-20-2006, 02:00 AM   #1
saavik
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Searching software for Word, Excel, zip and openoffic documentes


Hy!


We have here a SLES serving our user files.

We have lots of zipped Directorys and are in need of a good searching tool which must be able to find stings in Word-,Exceldocuments, Zipped and rar-Archives and OpenOffice documentes.

Does anybody know a Software which can help?

Thanks!
 
Old 01-20-2006, 05:23 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by saavik
Hy!


We have here a SLES serving our user files.

We have lots of zipped Directorys and are in need of a good searching tool which must be able to find stings in Word-,Exceldocuments, Zipped and rar-Archives and OpenOffice documentes.

Does anybody know a Software which can help?

Thanks!
Barring the zip files

Beagle and KAT can index contents of files


this is a very simple solution
Code:
alias seek='unzip $1 -C *.doc *.cvs *.odt&&cat *.doc *.cvs *.odt| grep -l -R -i $2'
seek zipfile whatyouwanttofind


unzip $1 -C *.doc *.cvs *.odt; cat *.doc *.cvs *.odt
this only extracts the files that end with *.doc *.cvs *.odt
ignores the rest

cat *.doc *.cvs *.odt

cat reads the and | sends then to grep to find the lines you want $2=whatyouwanttofind.



If you've run you'll see it is far from a complete solution but is a start.
if you know anything about script you can improve this simple solution.

Last edited by carl0ski; 01-20-2006 at 05:31 AM.
 
  


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