ssdiff(1)

ssdiff1

Compare two spreadsheets

Usage

ssdiff [OPTIONS] OLDFILE NEWFILE

Overview

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

Examples

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.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 8–9
  2. 10
  3. 11–13
  4. Arch

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 ⟩.

Author

ssdiff's primary author is Morten Welinder <[email protected]>; ssdiff builds on the gnumeric codebase.

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