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@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>.