Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

["Dr. Ed Morbius" <dredmorbius@gmail.com>]

on 14:46 Sat 09 Apr, Joel Roth (joelz@pobox.com) wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:22:04PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Arthur Marsh
> > <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there any Free PDF viewer in Debian that works outside of GNOME/KDE that
> > > can both search for text across line breaks and allows copying of text from
> > > the PDF document to the clip-board?
> > >
> > 
> > Install pdfgrep and xclip. You can then do something like:
> > 
> >   pdfgrep 'foo.*bar' baz.pdf | xclip
> > 
> > Works for me.
> 
> xclip! how is it I didn't know about you for so long?

Two shell scripts which have found their way to /usr/local/bin:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
xp      # xclip paste
------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# X clipboard paste
export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
xclip -o
------------------------------------------------------------------------


------------------------------------------------------------------------
xc      # xclip copy
------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# Xclip copy
export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
xclip
------------------------------------------------------------------------


Solves the vi/vim "how do I read in text" problem as well:

   :r !xp

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