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ssgrep: search spreadsheets for strings

NAME

ssgrep - search spreadsheets for strings

SYNOPSIS

ssgrep [OPTIONS] [FILES]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly documents the ssgrep command.

ssgrep is a command line utility to search for strings in spreadsheets of any format supported by gnumeric. Without any output modifying options, ssgrep prints one line for each match. A match consists of the matching content of a cell or, if the -R option is given, the matching expression result of a cell.

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with single letter options starting with a single dash (`-') and longer options starting with two dashes (`--').

Options controlling input file handling

--recalc

Recalculate all cells

Options controlling patterns and pattern matching

-f, --keyword-file=FILE

The path to a text file containing one key per line

-i, --ignore-case

Ignore differences in letter case

-w, --word-regexp

Match only whole words

-F, --fixed-strings

Pattern is a set of fixed strings

-R, --search-results

Search results of expressions too

-v, --invert-match

Search for cells that do not match

Options controlling output in general

-c, --count

Only print a count of matches per file

-L, --files-without-matches

Print filenames without matches

-l, --files-with-matches

Print filenames with matches

-q, --quiet

Suppress all normal output

-H, --with-filename

Print the filename for each match

-h, --without-filename

Do not print the filename for each match

-n, --print-locus

Print the location of each match

-T, --print-type

Print the location type of each match

Help options

-V, --version

Display ssgrep's version

-?, --help

Display the supported options

--usage

Display a brief usage message

EXAMPLE

To search for the string "SUM" in the file foo.gnumeric :

ssgrep SUM foo.gnumeric

To search for the strings from the file keywords in the spreadsheet foo.xls :

ssgrep --keyword-file=keywords foo.xls

LICENSE

ssgrep is licensed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL), version 2 or 3. For information on this license look at the source code that came with the software or see the GNU project page <URL: http://www.gnu.org >.

COPYRIGHT

The copyright on ssgrep and the gnumeric software and source code is held by the individual authors as is documented in the source code.

AUTHOR

ssgrep's primary author is Jody Goldberg <jody [at] gnome.org>; ssgrep builds on the gnumeric codebase.

The initial version of this manpage was based on ssindex.1 by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen [at] debian.org>.