[CLUE-Tech] Re: [CLUE-Talk] Word document question about file creation and modification info.

[Jed S. Baer]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:59:27 -0700
Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at attbi.com> wrote:

> On 03-21 12:40, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've got a tricky question (cause I don't use Word), I've got a Word
> > document and I see by Star Office under properties menu item that a
> > person created the document and another one modified it.  Can Word
> > tell me more about who modified it under Word and where do I look? 
> > Can I grep the file for this info in Linux?
> 
> It's under File->Properties inside Word 2000. Yes, you can grep for it,
> but if you want to see any output, you'll have to give -a to grep,
> because it wants to treat it as binary...otherwise, it just says that it
> matches if a match is found.

Use the strings command. All of that "hidden" stuff is usually at the
bottom. I'm not certain what you'd grep for. It might be easier, and more
interesting, to just look at the strings output in an editor and scan for
interesting morsels.

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