There is also a utility 'xls2csv' that does the job nicely. Its part of package 'catdoc' and should be in a repository of most popular distros.
on RH variants:
Hi,
I have a file coming in xxx.txt(csv format) i do some work on it and i need to send out as a .xls format. Is there any way there is some code i can use in my script to convert this?
I'm struggling on this.
Thanks (11 Replies)
Hi does anybody know how to convert xls to csv undex linux.
I need only data (that is log from test, dont need any macro and so on) from xls.
Any idea how to do that? Perl? shell? Could you give me any example?
Thanks in advance for answer.
Gracjan (4 Replies)
Hi,
i don't know anything about PERL. Can anyone help me providing PERL scripts for
1. converting XLS to CSV (and vice-versa)
2. converting DOC/RTF to TXT
Thanks much
Prvn (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a java program running in AIX machine which gives me the output in form of .CSV but my clients wants output in the form of .xls
When I gave the command mv <filename.csv> <filename.xls>
The contents of this .xls file is not exactly in seprate columns as in CSV, the contents... (1 Reply)
Hi
I wanted to convert some XLS files into CSV format in my UNIX box. Unix box is handling very important data which are related to data warehouse.It is fully optimized by installing minimum packages since server need more resources to handle reports generating.
Just for convert XLS files... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I've got in a situation where I need to convert .xlsx or .xls formatted files into simple text file or .csv file.
I've found many options but doing this using PERL script is the best way I believe.I'm in AIX box.
Perl code should have 2 params while running. i.e
perl... (1 Reply)
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catppt
ppt2text(1) General Commands Manual ppt2text(1)NAME
catppt - reads MS-PowerPoint file and puts its content on standard output
SYNOPSIS
catppt [-lV] [-b string ] [-s charset ] [-d charset ] files
DESCRIPTION
catppt reads MS-PowerPoint presentations and dumps its content to stdout.
OPTIONS -l list known charsets and exit successfully
-bstring
slides break string. This string (by default - formfeed) would be output at the end of each slide page.
-dcharset`
- specifies destination charset name. Charset file has format described in CHARACTER SETS section of catdoc(1) manual page. By
default, current locale charset would be used if langinfo support was enabled at the compile time.
-scharset
- specifies source charset. Typically, PowerPoint files use UNICODE strings with known charsets, but for some reason you may wish
to override it.
-V outputs version number
SEE ALSO cat(1), catdoc(1), xls2csv(1), strings(1), utf(4), unicode(4)AUTHOR
Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
MS-PowerPoint reader Version 0.94.4 ppt2text(1)