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Need Shell Script for document searching
I need a script that reads only printable characters (no duplicates) from all files in a directory and output them in a text file.
Last edited by l20N1N; 08-15-2010 at 08:45 PM.. Reason: simplified request
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Old 08-15-2010
not a shell script... try google desktop, using which will make you to deliver without spending time in designing, coding and testing....!!
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Script so far

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not a shell script... try google desktop, using which will make you to deliver without spending time in designing, coding and testing....!!
I will be looking through files of which its content is mixed with gibberish and chances are the files will be on a mounted drive but that tool will come in handy for other things.

in the meantime, what I have so far is:

Code:
cat *.txt | uniq -c > results.txt

this code takes the contents (even the non readible) of all the txt files in a directory and eliminates duplicates correct?

can this work with other file types such as .doc, .pdf, etc?

how would the code be written so that it only takes the readible content?

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