CHM formated files (parsing)

[Iain Young]

Hi Serb,

Don't know what a .chm file is, but you could try using strings(1)

Something like:

for i in `ls -1 *.chm` ; do
	echo $i
	strings $i | grep my_name
done

The echo will print the name of the file before any output, enabling
you to see which file matched.


Iain

Serg B. wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a bunch of CHM formatted files that I need interrogate for
> certina info...
> 
> E.g: for i in *.chm; do grep my_name $i; done
> 
> The problem is that Linux (and undoubtedly Windows) sees the files as
> binary data making grep useless. Therefore is there a way to quickly
> (hopefully from command line since I need to script) parse a CHM
> files?
> 
>    Thank,
>