ssgrep(1)

1SSGREP(1)                            GNOME                           SSGREP(1)
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NAME

6       ssgrep - search spreadsheets for strings
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SYNOPSIS

10       ssgrep  [OPTIONS] [FILES]
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DESCRIPTION

14       This manual page briefly documents the ssgrep command.
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16       ssgrep  is a command line utility to search for strings in spreadsheets
17       of any format supported by gnumeric.
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OPTIONS

21       This program follows the usual GNU command  line  syntax,  with  single
22       letter  options  starting  with  a single dash (`-') and longer options
23       starting with two dashes (`--').
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26   Options controlling input file handling
27       --recalc
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31   Options controlling patterns and pattern matching
32       -f, --keyword-file=FILE
33              The path to a text file containing one key per line
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35       -i, --ignore-case
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38       -w, --word-regexp
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41       -F, --fixed-strings
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44       -R, --search-results
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52       -c, --count
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58       -l, --files-with-matches
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64       -H, --with-filename
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67       -h, --without-filename
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70       -n, --print-locus
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78       -V, --version
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EXAMPLE

89       To search for the string "SUM" in the file foo.gnumeric :
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93       To search for the strings from the file  keywords  in  the  spreadsheet
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LICENSE

99       ssgrep is licensed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL),
100       version 2. For information on this license look at the source code that
101       came with the software or see the GNU project page ⟨http://
102       www.gnu.org⟩.
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COPYRIGHT

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

111       ssgrep's  primary  author  is  Jody  Goldberg  <jody@gnome.org>; ssgrep
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114       The initial version of this manpage was based on  ssindex.1  by  J.H.M.
115       Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>.
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