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

[Grant Johnson]

Just pipe it to less.

Jed S. Baer wrote:

>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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