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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xlhtml
xlhtml(1) General Commands Manual xlhtml(1)NAME
xlhtml - A program for converting Microsoft Excel Files .xls
SYNOPSIS
xlhtml [-a] [-asc] [-csv] [-xml] [-bcNNNNNN] [-bi/path] [-c] [-dp] [-v] [-fw] [-m] [-nc] [-nh] [-tcNNNNNN] [-te] [-xc:N-N] [-xp:N] [-xr:N-
N] FILE
DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the xlhtml program. The program xlhtml is used to convert Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet files into either html or
tab delimitted ASCII. The program can be interfaced with helper scripts for viewing email attachments. Most use of this program is through
the helper scripts and one would probably rarely resort to using the commandline interface.
OPTIONS -a aggressively optimize html by removing </TR> </TD> or VALIGN="bottom". Some older browsers may not display properly in this mode.
-asc Ascii out of -dp and extraction data (-xc, -xp, -xr)
-csv Output in Comma Separated Values of -dp and extraction data (-xc, -xp, -xr)
-xml Output in XML of -dp and extraction data (-xc, -xp, -xr)
-bc Override the background color. e.g. -bc808080 for gray
-bi Use background image. e.g. -bi/home/httpd/icon/tar.gif
-c Centers the tables horizontally
-dp Dump page count and max columns and rows per page
-v Prints program version
-fw suppress formula warnings about accuracy
-m No encoding for multibyte
-nc tells it not to colorize the output.
-nh Suppress header and body tags in html output
-tc Override the text color. e.g. -tcFF0000 for red
-te Trims empty rows & columns at the edges of a worksheet
-xc Columns (separated by a dash) for extraction (zero based)
-xp Page for extraction (zero based), one page only
-xr Rows (separated by a dash) to be extracted (zero based)
An example of the extraction command line is: xlhtml -fw -asc -xp:0 -xr:2-6 -xc:0-1 Test.xls
The extraction output is: Formatted output of cells by column left to right, columns separated by a tab, end of row is: 0x0A, end of file:
AUTHOR
Steve Grubb, Charles N Wyble
xlhtml May 15, 2002 xlhtml(1)