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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Searching multiple items Post 302365282 by kainfs on Monday 26th of October 2009 01:55:19 PM
Old 10-26-2009
Searching multiple items
Hi,
I'm a complete newbie so bear with me.

I have a directory (and sub-dirs) full of .doc, .xls files.

What I'm trying to do is do a single search within the files (i.e. within each .doc etc) for occurrences of multiple items e.g. apples, pears, grapes, bananas.

Basically I'd provide a list of things to search, hit return and it'll go away and search (and print) each occurrence of, for example, apples, pears etc.

Hope this is enough info.
I tried this using the find command in ms-dos but couldn't get my head around it.
any help would be gratefully received
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dwww-find

DWWW-FIND(8)							      Debian							      DWWW-FIND(8)

NAME

       dwww-find - find documentation related to a search argument

SYNOPSIS

       dwww-find [--program|--menu|--documentation|--docfile|--doc-base-list] [--skip=number] argument [...]

DESCRIPTION

       dwww-find is part of the dwww package, which provides access to on-line documentation on a Debian system via WWW.

       dwww-find  searches  for  a documentation related to a given program, for entries from Debian Documentation Menu, or at least for documents
       registered with doc-base.  It returns a HTML-formatted document with search results.

OPTIONS

       --program
	      Search for documentation	(man pages, info files, etc.) related to program specified by argument.

       --menu Search for entries in Debian Documentation Menu pages generated by dwww-build-menu(8).

       --documentation
	      Search in documentation files registered with doc-base.  It uses search++(1) for searching.

       --docfile
	      Search for documentation for package, which contains the file specified by the argument.	The file must be located  in  or  below  a
	      directory that has been allowed by the system administrator; see dwww(7) for more info.

       --doc-base-list
	      Show  list  of registerered doc-base files for given argument, which should be specified as format/document-id, where document-id is
	      an identificator of registered doc-base document, and format is a name of format (e.g. text or pdf) registered by the document,  for
	      which the list list is to be generated.

       --skip=number
	      Works only with --documentation.	Skip number of search results.

       When no options are specified, --program is assumed.

FILES

       /etc/dwww/dwww.conf
	      Configuration file for dwww.

SEE ALSO

       dwww(7),      dwww-quickfind(8),      dwww-build-menu(8),      dwww-index++(8),	    search++(1),     Debian	doc-base     Manual	in
       /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html.

AUTHORS

       Lars Wirzenius.	Robert Luberda.
       See dwww(7) for copyrights and stuff.

dwww 1.11.4							January 15th, 2011						      DWWW-FIND(8)
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