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ssdiff: compare two spreadsheets

NAME

ssdiff - compare two spreadsheets

SYNOPSIS

ssdiff [OPTIONS] OLDFILE NEWFILE

DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly documents the ssdiff command.

ssdiff is a command line utility to compare two spreadsheets and list their differences

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 (`--').

Output options

-x, --xml
Display differences in xml format

Help options

-V, --version
Display ssdiff's version
-?, --help
Display the supported options

EXAMPLE

To compare an old version of a file with a newer file, run:

ssdiff old.gnumeric new.gnumeric

The exit code will be 0 if no differences were found, 1 if differences were found, and 2 in case of trouble.

LICENSE

ssdiff 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 <URL: http://www.gnu.org >.

COPYRIGHT

The copyright on ssdiff and the gnumeric software and source code is held by the individual authors as is documented in the source code.

AUTHOR

ssdiff's primary author is Morten Welinder <terra [at] gnome.org>; ssdiff builds on the gnumeric codebase.

SEE ALSO

gnumeric(1), ssconvert(1), ssindex(1) ssgrep(1)

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

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