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Search inside ODT files
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.
searchodt
#!/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