Sifting through files to find/list word/phrase occurrences

Thomas Olsen tanghus at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 16:07:10 UTC 2007


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On Tue 6 March 2007 16:49, john d. herron wrote:
> Hi, all.
> When I use KFind's "Containing text" option to locate files other than
> plain text (e.g. files written in OOWriter but saved as MS .doc) that
> contain a certain word or phrase, I invariably come up emptyhanded even
> though I know for a fact that there are matches it should find.
> Is this a built-in limitation or am I simply being overly optimistic, or
> obviously doing something wrong?
> If so, are there any other methods that could provide the results I am
> looking for?
> Any help will be thankfully appreciated.
> jdh

Doesn't Kerry/Beagle do that?

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Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
	Thomas Olsen


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