03-21-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by ennstate
Assuming the orginal file contents
$ cat /tmp/file.txt
NAME ID YEAR
abc 25 1995
ced 34 1977
ttt 43 1983
Create a csv file,which i assume can be opened up in XL,
awk '{print $1","$2","$3}' < /tmp/file.txt > /tmp/file.csv
cat /tmp/file.csv
NAME,ID,YEAR
abc,25,1995
ced,34,1977
ttt,43,1983
Open the file.csv in Excel. Please let me know if this helps
thanx......yaar........it was of grt888!!!! help.....
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py_xls2csv
py_xls2csv(1) General Commands Manual py_xls2csv(1)
NAME
py_xls2csv - convert an Excel xls file to a comma separated value csv file
SYNOPSIS
py_xls2csv input-file
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
py_xls2csv takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a comma separated value csv file. Output is sent to stdout.
Additional utility scripts can be found in the tools/ directory.
OPTIONS
This program does not take any command line options.
AUTHOR
pyexcelerator and py_xls2csv were written by Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>.
This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted
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SEE-ALSO
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