I think I know the answer to this :rolleyes: but thought I'd ask anyway. You never know.
Does anyone know of a program or utility that will run on any unix platform and convert Microsoft Excel files to ascii/plain text files that unix can understand ?
Thanks in advance.
Floyd (3 Replies)
hello
I have browsed for the similar requirement i found this
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/40163-xls-csv-conversion.html
but my problem is i have multiple tabs in xls file having same metadata
I want to convert it into single csv file
any ways to do it pls... (5 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have written a perl script that reads data from excel sheet(.xls) using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module. But the problem is this module doesn't work for excel sheets with extension .xlsx.
I have gone through Spreadsheet::XLSX module with which we can read from .xlsx file directly.... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I've got in a situation where I need to convert .xlsx or .xls formatted files into simple text file or .csv file.
I've found many options but doing this using PERL script is the best way I believe.I'm in AIX box.
Perl code should have 2 params while running. i.e
perl... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am creating an XLS using unix which fetches the data from database.
In the first row i have 2 columns which i want to merge. Is it possible to merge the columns using unix command?
Thanks,
Sashanka (1 Reply)
Hey Guys ,
Recently working on a requirement , i had to deal with XLS file with multiple tabs and the requirement was as below :
1. Convert one XLS file with multiple tabs to multiple CSV files.
-- As i was working on MAC , so it was quite easy through APPLESCRIPT to deal with this.But... (2 Replies)
Hey Guys ,
Recently working on a requirement , i had to deal with XLS file with multiple tabs and the requirement was as below :
1. Convert one XLS file with multiple tabs to multiple CSV files.
-- As i was working on MAC , so it was quite easy through APPLESCRIPT to deal with this.But... (6 Replies)
Hi
I am trying one perl script to convert xlsx to xls file but could not able to get all the rows and columns in the xls file . This scriptFILE is basically to convert XLSX to CSV .. I am tweaking the script to convert XLSX to XLS file also
#######################FILE... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Am needing advise on how to convert xls file to xlsx format on Solaris unix command line or scripting. I tried searching online but it looks like I need to either use Perl packages of Excel or Python packages or some other 3rd party tool. Problem is to install any of these will require... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
py_xls2csv
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-ALSOpyexcelerator(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2html(1)
October 12, 2006 py_xls2csv(1)