I am trying to locate a LibreOffice/OpenOffice file which contains some text, but I don't know the file name.
Is there any possible way to locate said file using the Ubuntu's search file tool? If so, how? It seems that the search tool under Places only looks into plain text files. How should I proceed without using the command prompt?
Install searchmonkey, it's available from the repositories.
It's easy enough, but if you still need some help with it, ask me and I'll see if I can figure it out for you.
grep -R -i -a -n needle stack
grep is the tool needed to find text.
-R tells grep to search recursively.
-i tells grep to not be case-sensitive.
-a tells grep to treat binary files as plain text files.
-n tells grep to show you the line number where the needle is in the file.
needle is the piece of text you are looking for.
stack is where it should search. Because of the -R parameter you can use a directory here.
Example
grep -R -i -a -n "<html>" Websites
This will search for the text in every file in the folder Websites
I hope my explanation was enough for you to understand the use of all parameters. If not, feel free to ask more in a comment.
