04-15-2009
Conversion of .xls file to .csv file
Hi Folks,
I've to convert manually couple of *.xls files to *.csv files everyday
so i was just wondering if anyone could just help me with a shell script or awk script to automate the process
PS : Problem is that i cannot use any third party software for the conversion.
Thanking you in advance.
-chaturvedi
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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
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_xls2txt(1), py_xls2html(1)
October 12, 2006 py_xls2csv(1)