Catfish File Search

[pauloz]

Is there a way of searching text or phrases within Word/LibreOffice or PDF files using Catfish? If not, can anybody suggest a suitable alternative? I know a grep Command can be used in Terminal but it looks way over my head - would prefer something graphical if available.

Thanks in advance.

[Valtam]

Press Ctrl+F from within any document type to search it, or enable 'Fulltext Search' in Catfish.

[pauloz]

Thanks but I've already tried that and didn't work. I'm searching for an exact phrase comprising just a few words and want to know which doc file it came from. I also checked "Exact Match" as well as "Fulltext Search" but yielded no result. The file is definitely on my computer among a few hundred others!

[Valtam]

Then you may have to resort to grep. Don't let the command line intimidate you. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/15-p...-examples/

[pauloz]

Thanks Jerry but Recoll did it for me after a bit of tweaking. Thrilled with the results.
Appreciate your help - keep the LL flag flying!

[shengchieh]

Fyi, LL also has the terminal command, find .  On a terminal do

man find

Warning: alittle geeky.

Sheng-Chieh