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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Converting huge xls(having multiple tabs) to csv Post 302588887 by joshiamit on Tuesday 10th of January 2012 06:31:34 AM
Old 01-10-2012
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Originally Posted by mirni
I have used a tool xls2csv from the package 'catdoc' successfully before.
This should create files tab1.csv, tab2.csv, etc. one for each tab.
Thanks for this useful post but I have very limited privilege to access tools that's the main reason I am looking for any unix script base solution if possible
 

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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-ALSO pyexcelerator(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2csv(1) October 12, 2006 py_xls2html(1)
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