ssindex(1)

ssindex1

Generate index data for spreadsheet files

Usage

ssindex [OPTIONS] [FILES]

Overview

This manual page briefly documents the ssindex command.

ssindex is a command line utility to generate index data for various spreadsheet file formats. It is primarily used by the Beagle indexing sub-system and search aggregator.

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 (`--').

Main options

-E, --import-encoding=ENCODING

Specify an encoding for imported content

-i, --index

Index the given files

-m, --list-mime-types

List the MIME types which ssindex is able to read

Help options

-v, --version

Display ssindex's version

-?, --help

Display the supported options

--usage

Display a brief usage message

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0–7
  4. 8–9
  5. 10
  6. 11–13
  7. Arch

--data-dir until Debian 9 (Stretch); --lib-dir until Debian 9 (Stretch); -D until Debian 9 (Stretch); -L until Debian 9 (Stretch).

License

ssindex 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 ⟩.

Author

ssindex's primary author is Jody Goldberg <[email protected]>; ssindex builds on the gnumeric codebase.

The initial version of this manpage was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[email protected]>.

From gnumeric 1.12.62-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.