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# 1  
Old 06-21-2011
Excel
I have file called abc.txt at /usr/abc..

Content of file is as below.
Code:
mZ2|uM/KRCNB30103/1|BADR|NLRDC00C/W |                       |201105|I|2
oZ2|iM/KRCNB30103/1|BADR|NLRDC00C/W |                       |201105|I|2
pZ2|qM/KRCNB30103/1|BADR|NLRDC00C/W |                       |201105|I|2
aZ2|zM/KRCNB30103/1|BADR|NLRDC00C/W |                       |201105|I|2
qZ2|gM/KRCNB30103/1|BADR|NLRDC00C/W |                       |201105|I|2

The abc.txt contains huge data..I need to do few manipulation on that file in excel.

I need to copy the contents of this abc.txt to excel.
How is this possible with a simple command..
I mean copying the contect of this txt file and putting it into a excel on the local drive or desktop or anywhere.
# 2  
Old 06-21-2011
Copy the file from your unix system to local windows box. Once done then open it in excel will be enough. in Excel go to Data -> Text to Columns -> Delimited -> and under Other type "|".
# 3  
Old 06-21-2011
rename the file to .csv and make all the pipe | delimter to comma ,
# 4  
Old 06-21-2011
Almost all commercial spreadsheet software is able to read CSV files and convert them to XLS without much trouble.

It's a bit harder if you want to do the conversion using raw tools in a unix system.

I've heard xls2csv from CPAN works great but I've not really tested it myself.
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