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.

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)

The Gnumeric Homepage.

The GNOME project page.

Referenced By

gnumeric(1), ssconvert(1), ssdiff(1), ssindex(1).

2009-02-08 gnumeric GNOME