Re: Extending the Gnome search capabilities to be able to search in OOo files

[Tino Rachui <tino rachui sun com>]

Hi David!

> I have extended the search capabilities of gnome-search-tool by
> wrapping it in a script which
> 1. adds a directory to PATH that contains a "grep" script that
>   converts openoffice (and word) documents to text before running
>   /bin/grep on it and then
> 2. runs /usr/bin/gnome-search-tool
>
> Of course this is a horrible hack and very slow, but seems to be
> reliable, and I keep telling myself that there's no point doing
> anything fancier (like hacking gnome-search-tool to use an indexer
> like htdig or namazu) since medusa is on its way.  
>
> I can put the
> scripts on the web, if you think you might use them Tino.
>
>  
Yes please do so. At least I'd like to have a look on it.
Thanks.

Kind Regards,
Tino

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