Search for bold text in Bash?

[slavvo67]

Is there any way to search in bash (maybe grep or sed?) for text that would be bold in say a word document, ABI Word document or maybe Libre or Open Office documents? What I'm really looking to do is identify bold text and copy the text and page # to a new file. Basically, saving me the time of creating a directory on a 200+ page document.

[L18L]

Is there any way to search in bash (maybe grep or sed?) for text that would be bold in say a word document, ABI Word document or maybe Libre or Open Office documents? What I'm really looking to do is identify bold text and copy the text and page # to a new file. Basically, saving me the time of creating a directory on a 200+ page document.

created an abiword text file slavvo67.abw containing
a bold text
and made bold the word bold

Open the the abw file in text editor geany and you will see how abiword is storing "bold". Then you might use grep.

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# grep font-weight:bold slavvo67.abw

answered:

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<p style="Normal" xid="2"><c>a </c><c props="font-weight:bold">bold</c><c> word</c></p>
#

There is a program that removes all tags elsewhere or just use sed.....

[slavvo67]

L18L

Thanks. That was a step in the right direction!

I chopped out the other stuff with sed:

sed -e 's/.*>\(.*\)<.*/\1/'