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how can I search with office documents to locate a specific word or reference

Asked by Paul Feely

I have a large number of files on open/libre in office word or spreadsheet- with MS you can search within these for any reference- can this be done with ubuntu- so far the search tools only look for file names

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

find /folder/to/search type f -exec grep -i string {} \;

change '/folder/to/search' to the actual folder to search and 'string' to the thing you want to search for (case insensitive for 'string')

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