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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Run UNIX Script from Excel Post 302919601 by blackrageous on Thursday 2nd of October 2014 01:09:45 PM
Old 10-02-2014
You really can't run a UNIX script from Excel.

You can collect information on your UNIX system and create an import file (like a comma or other delimited file for import into Excel).

Perhaps what you want is automation of the process and this can be done a number of ways depending on your needs.


AUTOMATED PROCESS FROM WINDOWS

In this case you could use windows scheduler to run Excel and use command line options to automate the Excel session.

You could recreate a VB (Visual Basic), a VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) script, or a Powershell script and run it from Windows scheduler. If using VB or VBA there is a SHELL call that you could use to call SSH to log into the UNIX system and create the CSV/Import flie.
In Powershell you could use SSH directly into the UNIX system. You would need an SSH client like PUTTY).

Once the import file is created you could copy it back with SCP and then the script would call Excel with command line option to import the CSV file created on UNIX.
 

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excel::template::container::keepleadingzeros

Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros(3pm)	User Contributed Perl Documentation	 Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros(3pm)

NAME

       Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros - Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros

PURPOSE

       To set the keep_leading_zeros flag for the surrounding worksheet or any worksheets that might be contained within this node.

NODE NAME

       KEEP_LEADING_ZEROS

INHERITANCE

       CONTAINER

ATTRIBUTES

       None

CHILDREN

       None

EFFECTS

       Alters how leading zeros are interpreted by Spreadsheet::WriteExcel.

DEPENDENCIES

       None

USAGE

	 <worksheet>
	   ... Cells here will NOT have leading-zeros preserved
	   <keep_leading_zeros>
	     ... Cells here will have leading-zeros preserved
	   </keep_leading_zeros>
	   ... Cells here will NOT have leading-zeros preserved
	 </worksheet>

	 <keep_leading_zeros>
	   <worksheet>
	     ... Cells here will have leading-zeros preserved
	   </worksheet>
	   <worksheet>
	     ... Cells here will have leading-zeros preserved
	   </worksheet>
	 </keep_leading_zeros>

AUTHOR

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SEE ALSO

       CELL, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

perl v5.14.2							    2010-06-17			 Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros(3pm)
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