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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.

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. 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>.

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), ssindex(1)

       The Gnumeric Homepage <http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/>.

       The GNOME project page <http://www.gnome.org/>.