This simple script will search all the ODT files in the current directory for the specified text string, printing out the names of all the files containing said string.
#!/bin/bash if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then echo "Usage: `basename $0` searchterm" exit 1 fi for file in $(ls *.odt); do unzip -ca "$file" content.xml | grep -ql "$1" if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "$file" fi done