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Re: Is there an MS-Office grep?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: zzapper <david at tvis dot co dot uk>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 21:39:06 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Is there an MS-Office grep?
- References: <7kr7qv0fb6ifa6do50drsq9u5b0726kerf@4ax.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, zzapper wrote:
> Hi ya,
>
> There are quite a few commercial Ms-Office compatible greps but is
> there an Open Source one?
I don't know of a tool that greps Office files per se, but you can use the
"antiword" package to transform your Word documents into text and pipe the
output to the regular grep...
Igor
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