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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting FORMAT OF CSV FILE under unix environment. Post 302122632 by Ygor on Wednesday 20th of June 2007 11:18:18 PM
Old 06-21-2007
I don't think that padding with spaces will help, since Excel will still use a default column width when opening a csv file. You could convert your csv file to html, which Excel will try to render properly, e.g....
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{
        FS=","
        print "<HTML><BODY><TABLE>"
     }
     {
        printf "<TR>"
        for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)
          printf "<TD>%s</TD>", $i
        print "</TR>"
     }
     END{
        print "</TABLE></BODY></HTML>"
     }
     ' file1.csv > file2.xls

 

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