I have used a tool xls2csv from the package 'catdoc' successfully before.
I believe it separates tabs with some special character, ^L (octal 014) I. believe. I think you need a xls version from office XP/2003, not the newest xlsx stuff.
You could try this to separate the tabs:
This should create files tab1.csv, tab2.csv, etc. one for each tab.
Hi!
I'm using SunOS 5.7 w/ Bash 2.01.
Currently, I'm working on a script that will make it possible to find textfiles which match certain criteria. While I write this message, I had some brainfarts, found the answer myself :D and the question I had in mind is now no longer the question I... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Can anyone tell the option to change the file type in unix.
i.e. if a file is in csv(Comma Separating Values) format, it should be changed to xls(ordinary MS-Excel) format. But renaming command is not changing to correct file format.
Thanks in advance,
Milton. (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I wrote a script to extract data from Oracle DB and place it in a text file , and I have coverted .txt file into comma seperated .csv file and I sent it to my mail box .
I can get .xls file in my inbox.I am getting all data in same column and in different rows , without column... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Please give me the solution to the following ASAP.
1) Converting the .xls into .csv
Script i tried,
mv hello.xls hello.csv
The above given script converting the .xls file into .csv successfully. But after i run the below unix command I am no able to open the .csv file, its giving... (4 Replies)
Hi list,
This is probably something really simple, but I am not particularly familiar with Python so I thought I would ask as I know that python has an excel module.
I have an excel document with multiple tabs of data and graphs.
One of the tabs is just data which I require to have dumped to... (8 Replies)
i have installed CENTOS in VMware. I want the linux command to run in CENTOS.
The command is to select data's from Event table(our table name) convert into .xls and mail every 2hrs. Can you please help me in writing this script.
Thanks,
Shobana (1 Reply)
Hey Guys ,
Recently working on a requirement , i had to deal with XLS file with multiple tabs and the requirement was as below :
1. Convert one XLS file with multiple tabs to multiple CSV files.
-- As i was working on MAC , so it was quite easy through APPLESCRIPT to deal with this.But... (2 Replies)
Hey Guys ,
Recently working on a requirement , i had to deal with XLS file with multiple tabs and the requirement was as below :
1. Convert one XLS file with multiple tabs to multiple CSV files.
-- As i was working on MAC , so it was quite easy through APPLESCRIPT to deal with this.But... (6 Replies)
HI,
I have multiple files per dept in folder
for eg : In a folder
File1_Dept100.xls
File2_Dept100.xls
File3_Dept100.xls
File1_Dept200.xls
File2_Dept200.xls
File3_Dept200.xls
Output should be :
Dept100.xls which has File1, File2, File3 in different tabs
Dept200.xls which has... (1 Reply)
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py_xls2html
py_xls2html(1) General Commands Manual py_xls2html(1)NAME
py_xls2html - convert an Excel xls file to a html formatted file
SYNOPSIS
py_xls2html input-file
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
py_xls2html takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a html formatted 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_xls2html 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-ALSOpyexcelerator(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2csv(1)
October 12, 2006 py_xls2html(1)