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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Format problem while converting text file to csv Post 302767961 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 7th of February 2013 08:05:43 PM
Old 02-07-2013
You could also try:

Code:
awk -F': *' '{sub(/^ */,"");$1=$1}1' OFS=, test.txt

Edit: wow nearly the same as above - great minds think alike
 

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py_xls2csv(1)						      General Commands Manual						     py_xls2csv(1)

NAME
py_xls2csv - convert an Excel xls file to a comma separated value csv file SYNOPSIS
py_xls2csv input-file DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. py_xls2csv takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a comma separated value csv 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_xls2csv 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_xls2html(1) October 12, 2006 py_xls2csv(1)
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