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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers converting xls,xlsx files ?? Post 302383662 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 30th of December 2009 02:48:28 PM
Old 12-30-2009
OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
has a suite of programs that run on Unix. They work against excel, word, etc. files.
They are not command line utilities.

you can install oo, then use PyODC to do conversions from a shell script, the PyODC python script requires python and the oo runtime libraries.

Batch command line file conversion with PyODConverter - OpenOffice.org Ninja
 

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GSF(1)								       GNOME								    GSF(1)

NAME
gsf - archiving utility using the G Structured File library SYNOPSIS
gsf [OPTION...] SUBCOMMAND ARCHIVE... DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the gsf command. gsf is a simple archive utility, somewhat similar to tar(1). It operates on files following one of the structured file formats understood by the G Structured File library, for example, Microsoft Excel(TM) files. OPTIONS
Options -?, --help Show help options -v, --version Display gsf's version Subcommands cat Output one or more files in archive dump Dump one or more files in archive as formatted hexadecimal help List subcommands list List files in archive props Archive list of property names EXAMPLES
To list the content structure of a Microsoft Excel(TM) file arrays.xls: gsf list arrays.xls To dump Workbook, an individual data stream in arrays.xls: gsf dump arrays.xls Workbook AUTHORS
gsf's primary authors are Morten Welinder <terra@gnome.org> and Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org>. The initial version of this manpage was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>. SEE ALSO
gnumeric(1) The Gnumeric homepage <http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/> The GNOME project page <http://www.gnome.org/> gsf 29 November 2009 GSF(1)
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