Joshua Karstendick on 6 Sep 2005 01:56:44 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] spreadsheet help (gnumeric and something like grep)


If you can export the spreadsheet to a CSV file, that would be very
easy to parse with awk and grep.

On 9/5/05, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> wrote:
> I have a gnumeric spreadsheet and want to do the equivalent of grep or
> awk: I just want to see those lines that contain a certain pattern or
> just those lines that contain an entry in, say, column 12.  Anyone
> know how to do this?
> 
> I know how to use find to find the entries one at a time: I want them
> all at once.
> 
> I'm clearly asking this question incorrectly of google and the
> gnumeric docs, as I get nothing but am pretty sure the functionality
> exists.
> 
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