Search within documents! Pls Help

[Forri]

Hi All

I'm creating a small web interfaced search engine which will search for text (given by the user) within a folder of documents.

What command should i use and how should i use it to search these documents containing certain text? Can i retrieve a list of documents and is it possible to list them in number of hits order?


Thanks in advance
Nick

 

[franklin97355]

Read up on grep

 

[thedaver]

Investigate the "htdig" web search tool

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[stefanwagner]

Which kind of documents?
Plain text?
OpenOffice: sxw?


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[Forri]

thanks all

I know that i should use grep but i really don't know how to fix a command which reads within the doc (openoffice, text all)

Any help would be great!

Tahnsk again
Nick

 

[thedaver]

grep -irb

I believe the "b" allows search of binary files.

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[stefanwagner]

b allows for binary files, but OpenOffice-Docs are zipped (though named .sxw) where the content is stored in a file 'content.xml'.

I tried something like that:

find ./ -name "*.sxw" -exec unzip -p {} content.xml \; | grep -c PATTERN

to find all sxw-files, extract 'content.xml' to a pipe (-p), and grep counting (-c) for a pattern.
But it doesn't work as expected.

I tried grepping inside the find:

#!/bin/bash
# docfind.sh: 
unzip -p $1 content.xml | grep -c $2
# eof

find ./ -name "*.sxw" -exec ./docfind.sh {} PATTERN \;

Perhaps someone knows how to build a solution from this fragments.





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