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Which Excel file contains the word "Alligator" ?

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I would ike to know which Excel file in a given folder contains the word "Alligator".

Or course, the same problem occurs if I am looking for another word, "bird" or "hammer", and want to know in which .docx file it is.

Of course, I could open each Excel file or each Microsoft Word file and look whether this word is present or not.

However, I have a lot of such files, and I would really know in which file I was talking about alligators.

And unfortunately, wingrep does not grep inside binary files.

Does somebody have an idea?

Regards

Yordan

 

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Nobody has the answer ?

I also have this problem, with my Microsoft Word .docx files. I know I wrote something about testing the "lparstat" command usage and examples, but I don't remember in which document I wrote this.

I will try wingrep with the zip option, but I'm almost sure that excel and word files are binary files but aren't zipped files.

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