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Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 21:39:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Is there an MS-Office grep?
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, zzapper wrote:

> Hi ya,
>
> There are quite a few commercial Ms-Office compatible greps but is
> there an Open Source one?

I don't know of a tool that greps Office files per se, but you can use the
"antiword" package to transform your Word documents into text and pipe the
output to the regular grep...
	Igor
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