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Bulldog finder http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78592
searches for text in a group of files differently than pfind.

First the files are found ---. for example the extension .txt

Then click the button for search for text inside.

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I also found this, it's working for me in Slacko 6.3:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/docx2txt/files/docx2txt/v1.4/

You just type ./docx2txt.sh yourfile.docx and it converts docx to txt.

No more programs needed to read docx. Now I can read these "saved in unfortunate cryptic format" files in leafpad.

I use the perl script and pipe it into leafpad

How does this help to find text in docx file with pfind?

Nothing. But I thought that Zigbert should know that piping text into
leafpad is possible. For instance the list of files and their paths could be
piped into leafpad. I find that list valuable sometimes.

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don570 wrote:Nothing. But I thought that Zigbert should know that piping text into
leafpad is possible. For instance the list of files and their paths could be
piped into leafpad. I find that list valuable sometimes.

OK, didn't notice that you opened a different topic. Do you use that in Bulldog finder?

No because I just learned about leafpad abilities

but it is an interest and useful feature.
Doesn't work properly with arm processor though.

Foreign characters aren't translated properly during the piping.
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don570 wrote:Foreign characters aren't translated properly during the piping.

What is a foreign character? I have no problems with Vietnamese characters.

What is a foreign character?

I mean accented characters like German and French.

When I was using barry K quirky arm distro
didn't pipe the accented characters so I made a temporary file instead
then opened with geany
I don't think I had this problem in fatdogarm.
There's no problem in Intel 386 machines.

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don570 wrote: When I was using barry K quirky arm distro

Code: Select all

./docx2txt.pl yourfile.docx  | leafpad

didn't pipe the accented characters so I made a temporary file instead
then opened with geany

Code: Select all

./docx2txt.pl yourfile.docx  >  temp.txt
geany  temp.txt

I don't think I had this problem in fatdogarm.
There's no problem in Intel 386 machines.

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Funny. Did you try leafpad's --codeset option?

I'll try that and see what happens.

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Hello Zigbert
I am using tahr-6.0.5 with pFind-6.1 OOTB.

When pFind is invoked via Menu>Filesystem, the searchbox is populated with "Search text", and changes to blank as the cursor gets there. The purpose I presume is to inform the user to enter the target text in the window. I think a combination of a static "Enter Search text" label below an empty window and code change will achieve the same objective but without the undesirable results described below.

For purposes of "copy/paste" text, I usually highlight the text and use the middle button of the mouse to paste. It is faster and uses fewer mouse clicks than right-click+Copy/Paste [Ctl-C/Ctl-V] which I use less often. If I hightlight a search target somewhere and invoke pFind, the highlighted text buffer is clobbered and replaced with "Search text" and the middle mouse button doesn't work. Would you please consider modifying the code to at least avoid the clobbering? You could retain the hiding "Search text" in the window and modify the code to avoid the clobbering or replace the hiding "Search text" with a static "Enter Search text" label as suggested above and code to not clobber the buffer. Your choice of course.

TIA

B.K. Johnson
Thank you for the feedback.
I will consider your suggestion...

Sigmund

I had an idea you'd found a way to display it there but make it disappear when you click there... am I imagining it?

A suggestion:

When there is more that 500 results, then automatically save a text file
of the paths in /root or $HOME folder and warn user .

Going to home is easier than /tmp

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disciple wrote:I had an idea you'd found a way to display it there but make it disappear when you click there... am I imagining it?

Yes, that is possible, but the textfield (entry) has the default focus to write your search strings without any clicking...

I made a right click utility (pfind plus) for the distros that don't have a right click available to search in folder.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=110596

I am surprised that people don't use pFind more, so efficient..
Files used in july 2017 (choose extension, personal or system, and date range)
atime = access time
ctime = change time
Users complain that not working with personal files ? here

I am surprised that people don't use pFind more, so efficient..

We do use it!!
It just works, so not much to talk about.
Well, it does everything I want a file search program to do!

Bigpup, i agrrreee. No need to create scripts to do what Pfind does. Never mind..
What would be nice is to sort results by date, or other criteria. I fail with that.