ssgrep - Man Page
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.
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@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@debian.org>.
See Also
beagled(1), gnumeric(1), ssconvert(1), ssdiff(1) ssindex(1)
Referenced By
gnumeric(1), ssconvert(1), ssdiff(1), ssindex(1).