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

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

Yeah, thanks, I've thought of that, but this is something that
spreadsheets supposedly support: I'd like to figure it out.  Else I'd
just do all of this with awk and a few shell scripts for easy data
entry. ;-)

-Jeff


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:56:40PM -0400, Joshua Karstendick wrote:
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> 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.
> > 
> > --
> >  Jeff
> > 
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 Jeff

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