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Old 05-13-2009
looking for patterns/tex in a .doc file

I'm learning Unix on my mac, and know that the grep command only works in text files. But what if I want to search for text/patters in a doc file, say? (I write my letters in NeoOffice and save them in .doc format). Is there a unix command that can do that?
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Old 05-14-2009
There's an open source program called catdoc:
DESCRIPTION
catdoc behaves much like cat(1) but it reads MS-Word file and produces
human-readable text on standard output.

Then a pipe and grep?
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Old 05-14-2009
where can I get this program?
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Old 05-14-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Straitsfan
where can I get this program?
Google would be my first choice.
If you're under Solaris, look here.
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Old 05-15-2009
 
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