Search file system for files by text content

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Hi. Is there any way to search the file system for text files that contain particular key words?

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lots of ways to do it..

mostly used to :
$ grep -nir $text $dir
or
$ find $dir -name ‘*.txt’ -exec grep $text {} +

find example above will only look for txt files, while grep will look any file..
in anycase, customize it to your needs. replace $text + $dir with what/where you want to search.

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Yes, just like xinomilo has already explained, on console exist lots of methods. And in antiX there is also present a GUI allowing this search.
Open from antiX Main menu → Programs → Utilities select “zzzFM File search” (alternatively from zzzFM Menu bar → Menu “File” → “File search”).
In tab “General” enter *.txt as file name to the “file name” field.
In tab “Content” enter text to search for to the field “search for”.
Start search by pressing the search button.

In case of multiple keywords check the box “Use regular expression”
Use appropriate search pattern in search field. Example:
keyword1 \| keyword2 \| keyword3
to find files which contain one of these three keywords.

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Midnight Commander (mc) has a good Find files option on the command menu.

Searchmonkey (not sure if installed by default) also has real nice file search ability.

I wonder which has the best features? And which has the best performance?

Typically, I use grep or mc, but as robin said, there are many possible programs and methods.

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Thanks for your help.

xinomilo wrote:

mostly used to :
$ grep -nir $text $dir

I’m not sure I understand it. Is this one command?

Robin wrote:

select “zzzFM File search”

I try a search in my “Documents” directory, but nothing is found.

BobC wrote:

Searchmonkey (not sure if installed by default) also has real nice file search ability.

I have installed it and I try the same search. It finds an odt file, but then it crashes:

$ searchmonkey
* XML Word document present in position:3 *
* XML Word document present in position:3 *
* XML Word document present in position:3 *
* XML Word document present in position:3 *
* XML Word document present in position:3 *
* XML Word document present in position:6 *
* XML Word document present in position:6 *
* XML Word document present in position:6 *
* XML Word document present in position:6 *
* XML Word document present in position:6 *
* XML Word document present in position:6 *
* XML ODT document present in position:10 *
* XML ODT document present in position:10 *
* XML Word document present in position:8 *
* XML Word document present in position:4 *
Segmentation fault

BobC wrote:

Midnight Commander (mc) has a good Find files option on the command menu.

I only see a “Find…” command under the “Search” menu, but I don’t understand what exactly does.

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andfree wrote:

I’m not sure I understand it. Is this one command?

yes, for example to search for “antix” in all files in home folder :
grep -nir antix ~/

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xinomilo wrote:

to search for “antix” in all files in home folder :
grep -nir antix ~/

Thanks, it works. But I see that it doesn’t find odt files. I created a new one, named “file”, put in the “Downloads” folder, and containing only the word “test”. Not found by the command:

grep -nir test ~/Downloads

zzzFM also doesn’t find it. Searchmonkey does.

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odt is not a text document. try cat file.odt to see what grep sees/looks for.

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Dear andfree – just to make the situation clear: usually Linux command line commands that search for text perform the search in text files. Files created using word processors (like Writer and Word) usually are not simple text file, and usually can’t be searched by this tools. There are ways to perform the search on other file types other than simple text, if you dig around the web for them. I’ll try to post some options here…

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Thanks for your replies.
I moved the file to the home folder, and then:
$ cat file.odt

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Hmmmm, ok, look at the file in hex. You can install a hex viewer program to do that like I did.

The words in the .odt file look like gibberish (like what you pasted in), so grep can’t find the string in there. Midnight Commander has the same problem as grep.

There is a utility called odt2txt in the repos you can install that will convert .odt files to text files.

PS: Once odt2txt is installed, F3 in Midnight Commander will convert the file to text before bringing it up in the viewer. But mc’s search still can’t find it in the .odt file.

Script code adapted from here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/196633/converting-for-file-in-to-find-so-that-my-script-can-apply-recursively

If you write a script to convert all .odt files to .txt first, and then search probably any of the search methods given will find it. In my files, I am looking for “geoblocked” in any case. My files are .odt files, and 2 are in English with that word in them.

# no files contain geoblocked
$ grep -nir "geoblocked" *
bobc:~/Downloads/acstv-trans-20220106-archive

# install odt2txt program
$ sudo apt install odt2txt
[sudo] password for bobc: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  odt2txt
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 61.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 odt2txt amd64 0.5-7 [15.5 kB]
Fetched 15.5 kB in 0s (53.0 kB/s)  
Selecting previously unselected package odt2txt.
(Reading database ... 305825 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../odt2txt_0.5-7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking odt2txt (0.5-7) ...
Setting up odt2txt (0.5-7) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.69) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
bobc:~/Downloads/acstv-trans-20220106-archive

# read one page manual for odt2txt program
$ man odt2txt
bobc:~/Downloads/acstv-trans-20220106-archive

# list directory to see what files are already there
$ ls -l
total 11560
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc   14220 Jan  7 18:38 meld_Bedienungsanleitung-original.de_DE-1.08.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc    7489 Jan  7 18:38 meld_Bedienungsanleitung-original.de_DE-1.0.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc 3912998 Jan  7 23:31 User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023.odt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc   68981 Jan  7 18:38 User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc 3911767 Jan 20 02:43 User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.odt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc 3911308 Jan  7 18:38 VERGLEICH_Bedienungsanleitung-original.de_DE-1.08.odt
bobc:~/Downloads/acstv-trans-20220106-archive

# convert the one file to text to test odt2txt program
$ odt2txt User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.odt > User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.odt.txt
bobc:~/Downloads/acstv-trans-20220106-archive

# convert all the .odt files to text with odt2txt program
$ find . -name '*.odt' -exec sh -c '
  for file do                                          
    target="${file%.*}.txt"
    odt2txt "$file" > "$target"
  done' sh {} +
bobc:~/Downloads/acstv-trans-20220106-archive

# list directory to see what got created
$ ls -l
total 11624
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc   14220 Jan  7 18:38 meld_Bedienungsanleitung-original.de_DE-1.08.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc    7489 Jan  7 18:38 meld_Bedienungsanleitung-original.de_DE-1.0.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc 3912998 Jan  7 23:31 User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023.odt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc   68981 Jan  7 18:38 User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc   13099 Jan 20 03:30 User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc 3911767 Jan 20 02:43 User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.odt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc   13111 Jan 20 03:04 User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.odt.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc   13111 Jan 20 03:30 User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc 3911308 Jan  7 18:38 VERGLEICH_Bedienungsanleitung-original.de_DE-1.08.odt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bobc bobc   13676 Jan 20 03:30 VERGLEICH_Bedienungsanleitung-original.de_DE-1.08.txt
bobc:~/Downloads/acstv-trans-20220106-archive

# search again with grep (it found it everywhere i put it)
$ grep -nir "geoblocked" *
User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023.txt:10:are not geoblocked by streaming provider for the respective
User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.odt.txt:10:are not geoblocked by streaming provider for the respective
User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.odt.txt:13:Geoblocked
User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.txt:10:are not geoblocked by streaming provider for the respective
User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.txt:13:Geoblocked

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To search for text inside .pdf files, from the terminal, you can adapt this (I got it from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6704/how-can-i-grep-in-pdf-files)

Note: This requires “pdftotext” to be installed in your system

Replace pattern and place variables for whatever you like. The place variable, in the example below, searches everything inside your home folder.

pattern="my text"
place=$HOME
find $place -name '*.pdf' -exec sh -c 'pdftotext "{}" - | grep --with-filename --label="{}" --color "$pattern"' \;

Edit:
A tool to search for text side pdf, documents, ebooks is available here: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2019/rga–ripgrep-for-zip-targz-docx-odt-epub-jpg/
I’m currently trying to test it

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Or for .odt files, stealing PPC’s solution and tweaking it a bit (I had problems passing the pattern to grep)…

PS: Be careful copying the code as it stretches about double the width of the box

$ pattern="geoblocked"
$ place="." 
$ find $place -name '*.odt' -exec sh -c 'odt2txt "{}" | grep -i --with-filename --label="{}" --color "'"$pattern"'" | grep -i "'"$pattern"'"' \;
./User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.odt:are not geoblocked by streaming provider for the respective
./User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023x.odt:Geoblocked
./User_manual_translated.en_GB-07.01.2023.odt:are not geoblocked by streaming provider for the respective

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Hum… I’m almost tempted to create a yad GUI for searching documents: .txt, .pdf and .odt and make it available in FT10… But there’s already rip-grep, recoil, etc… and that could be superfluous, since there are very good tools already available.

Off topic:
Having a “Universal” search icon on the menu/toolbar, that allows users to enter a search term and has checkboxes like: “Search for Applications”; “Search the Web with dddgr”; “Search for File name”; “Search for Content inside .txt, .pdf and .odt documents” would be neat… hum…

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I’m not sure if anything I installed in my computer added any functionality to searchmonkey, but it does search files by name and contents, including text files, .pdf, odt, doc and docx !
You get a preview of where in the file the text is found, on a panel on the lower right.
You can even perform searches from the terminal. From the help file:

how to launch Searchmonkey with parameters :
searchmonkey -d {directory} -f {file name} -t {containing text}
Example :
 searchmonkey -d /home/tux/documents -f txt -t linux

If you start the search from the terminal, you do have to press enter, on the GUI, in order for the search to start.

My single problem with searchmonkey is that it’s not localized in my language, making it harder to be used by non English speaking users- I did create a localization file for it, that I tested on my old computer (and sent to Marcelo, if I recall correctly).
I may create a simple GUI for it (that I can localize myself). Probably, if I do that, the GUI will ask if the user wants to perform a web search (displaying the results in the GUI I created for ddgr) or search files/documents on the local computer.
For searching installed applications users have appselect (or the menu search, if they are using FT10). For searching for “installable” applications users can try Package Installer and then Synaptic.
Overall, antiX provides nice GUI ways to search for files by text content (or even apps by description)

On my computers, searchmonkey (installed by default in antiX full) never failed me.

Edit: if you want to use searchmonkey from the terminal, without having to press enter to start the search try something like this:

searchmonkey -d $HOME -f .doc -t antix & sleep 5 && xdotool key KP_Enter

This will search, all documents inside your home folder, that include the “doc” in their name/extension and include “antix” inside them [adapt to search for files with the name you want, anywhere, with any content].

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