Re: GREP help -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: GREP help
From: Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:36:19 +0200
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Hello Mark,

Am 18.07.2025 um 22:14 schrieb Mark Waterbury via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

so you cannot really search those directly using "grep" -- you would first need to use some other tool to extract the "text" and then search that.

… or use a tool which understands PDFs. :-)

https://pdfgrep.org

I'm using this quite a lot on Linux for many automation tasks. Don't know if it's in IBM i's yum repository.

:wq! PoC

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