Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 12:40 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> They are files from proprietary Windows/Mac apps?
> Then you can't. Grep only searches plain text.

No fewer than three people provided essentially the same tools to do
exactly what you say cannot be done.

While it is true that grep only searches plain text, the guts of these
files can in general be converted to plain text relatively easily,
allowing grep to search them.

Two tools mentioned, AbiWord and LibreOffice - allow doc files to be
converted to other formats which can then be searched.

Regards, K.

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