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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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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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