title: Search MS word files in a directory for specific content in Linux
body: <p>I have a directory structure full of MS word files and I have to search the directory for particular string. Until now I was using the following command to search files for in a directory</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>find . -exec grep -li 'search_string' {} \;</p>
    
    <p>find . -name '*' -print | xargs grep 'search_string'</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But, this search doesn't work for MS word files. </p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to do string search in MS word files in Linux?</p>