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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to convert excel file to csv file or text file? Post 302784627 by DGPickett on Friday 22nd of March 2013 03:29:41 PM
Old 03-22-2013
I took it that the input.xls file is xls, just described in text. So you need an xls2txt or xls2csv.

In the excel context, text had columns tab delimited, but CSV is more than comma deilimited, with quoting and quote escape rules. In the following example, this is one row of 3 cells in CSV:
Code:
1,2,"The strange man cried out ""You did't steal my hat, did you?""
I replied ""No, I certainly did not!"""

 

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py_xls2txt

py_xls2txt(1)						      General Commands Manual						     py_xls2txt(1)

NAME

       py_xls2txt - convert an Excel xls file to a plain text file

SYNOPSIS

       py_xls2txt  input-file

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       py_xls2txt takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a plain text 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_xls2txt 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_xls2csv(1), py_xls2html(1)

								 October 12, 2006						     py_xls2txt(1)
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