NAME

               odffilesearch - File selection by keywords

SYNOPSIS

               odffilesearch -R "D:\Documents\*.odt" openoffice desktop XML

               produces the list of the ODF Text documents present in the given
               directory and its subdirectories, and containing the words
               "openoffice", "desktop" AND "XML"

               odffilesearch -command "rm -f %f" "*.ods *.odt" lost dismiss cancel

               executes the "rm -f filename" (i.e. deletes the file in a Unix system)
               for each ODT or ODS file present in the current directory
               and containing the words "lost", "dismiss" AND "cancel"

USAGE

               odffilesearch [-options] <file filter> <keyword list>

DESCRIPTION

               This utility allows the user to retrieve a list of files matching
               a given set of keywords or regular expressions. A file is selected
               when it contains, in its text and/or in its metadata (title, subject,
               keywords or description), all the given search strings.

               The selected files are echoed to the standard output (one file per
               line), so this utility can be used as a filter piping its results
               to another program. Alternatively, a given shell command can be
               launched by the script each time a file matches, allowing on-the-fly
               processing of the selected documents.

               The files filter may content one or more space-separated paths.
               Each path may content jokers. So it's possible to explore several
               directories and/or several filename patterns.

               All the arguments after the file filter are processed as search
               criteria.

OPTIONS

               -R -recursive
                       include the subdirectories of each given search directory
               -verbose -trace -debug
                       echo some processing comments
               -warnings
                       activate the warning messages of the OpenOffice::OODoc API
               -log <file>
                       like -verbose, but then messages are sent to the given file
                       and don't pollute the standard output
               -result <file>
               -output <file>
                       send the list of matching files to the given file and not
                       to the standard output
               -criteria <file>
                       get search criteria from a file (one per line); the loaded
                       search keywords may be combined with additional criteria
                       passed with the command line, if any.
               -command <command> -exec <command>
                       execute a shell command for each matching file ; if the
                       command string contains "%f", this substring is replaced
                       with the name of the selected file ; if this option is
                       provided, the selection list is not echoed to the standard
                       output ; if -verbose is on, the value returned by the
                       command is echoed
               -encoding <encoding>
                       selects the user's character set ; this option is mandatory
                       if one or more search criteria contain characters not
                       belonging to the default character set