On 06/16/2011 10:06 AM, lee wrote: > Hi, > > when I have a collection of documents created with > openoffice/libreoffice writer and want to search through them for > strings contained in the text, how do I do that? Is there some > equivalent for grep that works on such files? > I use the recoll package for searching for terms of all kinds of files Including OpenOffice/libreoffice files. HTH Wayne