ssgrep - search spreadsheets for strings
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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.
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.
Example
To search for the string "SUM" in the file foo.gnumeric :
ssgrepSUMfoo.gnumeric
To search for the strings from the file keywords in the spreadsheet foo.xls :
ssgrep--keyword-file=keywordsfoo.xlsLicense
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 ⟨http://
www.gnu.org⟩.
Name
ssgrep - search spreadsheets for strings
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 (`--').
Optionscontrollinginputfilehandling--recalc
Recalculate all cells
Optionscontrollingpatternsandpatternmatching-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
Optionscontrollingoutputingeneral-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
Helpoptions-V,--version
Display ssgrep's version
-?,--help
Display the supported options
--usage
Display a brief usage message
See Also
beagled(1), gnumeric(1), ssconvert(1), ssdiff(1) ssindex(1) The Gnumeric Homepage ⟨http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/⟩. The GNOME project page ⟨http://www.gnome.org/⟩. gnumeric 2009-02-08 SSGREP(1)
Synopsis
ssgrep [OPTIONS] [FILES]
