You lost me. There is nothing in post #1 in this thread that talks about converting | characters to tabs. That is much more easily done by the simple command:
What was requested was a way to convert a text file into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (presumably .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, or .xlx) format (all of which are proprietary Microsoft binary formats). I know that some versions of perl are able to do with when certain plugins are available, but converting a pipe symbol separated values file into a tab separated values file does not seem to make any progress towards the request stated in post #1 in this thread. Am I missing something?
i have a file whose data is like this::
osr_pe_assign|-120|wg000d@att.com|4|
osr_evt|-21|wg000d@att.com|4|
pe_avail|-21|wg000d@att.com|4|
osr_svt|-11|wg000d@att.com|4|
pe_mop|-13|wg000d@att.com|4|
instar_ready|-35|wg000d@att.com|4|
nsdnet_ready|-90|wg000d@att.com|4|... (6 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I have a text file containing nearly 12,000 tab delimited characters with 4000 rows. If the file size is small, excel can convert the text into coloumns. However, the file that I have is very big. Can some body help me in solving this problem?
The input file example,
... (6 Replies)
I have a text file that made using text editor in Ubuntu. However the text file is not being recognized as space or tab delimited, the formatting seems to be messed up. How can I convert the text file into tab delimited format? (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have space delimited file similar to the one as shown below.. I need to convert it as a pipe delimited, the values inside the pipe delimited file should be as highlighted...
AA ATIU2345098809 009697 005374
BB ATIU2345097809 005445 006518
CC ATIU9685098809 003215 003571
DD... (7 Replies)
I have a file which was pipe delimited, I need to make it tab delimited. I tried with sed but no use
cat file | sed 's/|//t/g'
The above command substituted "/t" not tab in the place of pipe.
Sample file:
abc|123|2012-01-30|2012-04-28|xyz
have to convert to:
abc 123... (6 Replies)
Hi How to make tab delimited file to space delimited?
in put file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
o/p file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
Use code tags, thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi
i have a problem in my job
i try to convert an excel file (xls extention) to text file (tab delimited), but no result with this comand
cat xxx.xls > xxx.txt
Do you have eny idea?
PS: sorry for my english
Thanks!! (4 Replies)
Hi All,
How can we convert pipe delimited ( or comma ) file to vertical tab (VT) delimited.
Regards
PK (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: prasson_ibm
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ooconvert - Commandline Document Converter Using OpenOffice.org
SYNOPSIS
ooconvert [--help] [--force] input output
DESCRIPTION
This tool converts documents between various formats on the commandline. It uses OpenOffice.org that guarantees the quality of available
import and export filters.
This tool tries to start OpenOffice.org in the server mode on backgroud. It does not work if the OpenOffice.org application has already
been running. Also it slows down the conversion a lot. We hope to reduce these limitations in the further versions.
OPTIONS
input Input file. The filename suffix must be one of the currently supported file formats, see below.
output Output file. The filename suffix defines the output file format. It must be one from the table below. An existing file can be over-
written by the --force option.
--help Print help and exit.
--force
Force an already existing output file to be replaced.
SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS
The current version of this tool does not read the list of available input and output filters directly from OpenOffice.org. The list of
supported file formats is hardcoded and thus limited to:
doc Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP
docx MS Word 2007 XML
dot Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP Template
dotx MS Word 2007 XML Template
html HyperText Markup Language (Web Page)
odt ODF Text Document
ods ODF Spreadsheet
odp ODF Presentation
ott ODF Text Document Template
ots ODF Spreadsheet Template
otp ODF Presentation Template
pdf Portable Document Format
ppt Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP
pptx Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 XML
pot Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP Template
potx Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 XML Template
rtf Rich Text Format
stc OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet Template
sti OpenOffice.org 1.0 Presentation Template
stw OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text Document Template
sxc OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet
sxi OpenOffice.org 1.0 Presentation
sxw OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text Document
swf Macromedia Flash
txt Plain Text
xls Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP
xlsx Microsoft Excel 2007 XML
xlt Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP Template
xltx Microsoft Excel 2007 XML Template
TROUBLESHOOTING PROBLEMS
See http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:OOo for more details about how to report bugs in OpenOffice.org.
AUTHOR
This manual page was created by Petr Mladek <petr.mladek@novell.com>.
OpenOffice.org Converter 2009-02-09 ooconvert(1)