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Old 08-27-2008
How to Merge Two .xls files side by side into a single .xls

Hi all,

please help me out in below requirement.

I have two .xls files say abc.xls and bbc.xls , i want to merge these two files into a single file ..say xyz.xls side by side

Ex:

abc.xls bbc.xls

Eno Ename Eno Ename
101 hello 201 delhi
102 hero 202 Hyd
103 india 203 bombay

My o/p file should be like this

xyz.xls

Eno Ename Eno Ename
101 hello 201 delhi
102 hero 202 Hyd
103 india 203 bombay

between these two one empty column should be there to distinguish..

please help me.. how do we do in unix..
 

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py_xls2txt(1)						      General Commands Manual						     py_xls2txt(1)

NAME
py_xls2txt - convert an Excel xls file to a plain text file SYNOPSIS
py_xls2txt input-file DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. py_xls2txt takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a plain text 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_xls2txt 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 to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. SEE-ALSO pyexcelerator(1), py_xls2csv(1), py_xls2html(1) October 12, 2006 py_xls2txt(1)
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