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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help to write a shell script to convert text file to excel file. Post 302957513 by bakunin on Monday 12th of October 2015 10:45:33 AM
Old 10-12-2015
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Originally Posted by akabhinav18
but when I am creating .csv file I am getting all data in a single column while I want separate column for each field.
It might help you to know that "CSV" stands for "comma separated value", not "colon separated value". Replace the colon separators with comma (or semicolon) separators and Excel should have no problems separating the fields into separate cells.

You might want to read RFC 4180 ("Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files") for more information about delimiter-separated file formats.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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MDBTools(1)															       MDBTools(1)

NAME
mdb-export - Export data in an MDB database table to CSV format. SYNOPSIS
mdb-export [-H] [-d delimiter] [-R row_delim] [[-Q] | [-q quote [-X escape]]] [-I] [-D format] database table DESCRIPTION
mdb-export is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools. It produces a CSV (comma separated value) output for the given table. Such output is suitable for importation into databases or spread- sheets. OPTIONS
-H Supress header row -Q Don't wrap text-like fields (text, memo, date) in quotes. If not specified text fiels will be surrounded by " (double quote) char- acters. -d Specify an alternative column delimiter If no delimiter is specified, table names will be delimited by a , (comma) character. -R Specify a row delimiter -I INSERT statements (instead of CSV). You must specify the SQL dialect. -D Set the date format (see strftime(3) for details) -q Use to wrap text-like fields. Default is ". -X Use to escape quoted characters within a field. Default is doubling. -N namespace Prefix identifiers with namespace. NOTES
ENVIRONMENT
MDB_JET3_CHARSET Defines the charset of the input JET3 (access 97) file. Default is CP1252. See iconv(1). MDBICONV Defines the output charset to use for the SQL file. Default is UTF-8. mdbtools must have been compiled with iconv. MDBOPTS semi-column separated list of options: o use_index o no_memo o debug_like o debug_write o debug_usage o debug_ole o debug_row o debug_props o debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options SEE ALSO
gmdb2(1) mdb-hexdump(1) mdb-prop(1) mdb-sql(1) mdb-ver(1) mdb-array(1) mdb-header(1) mdb-parsecsv(1) mdb-schema(1) mdb-tables(1) HISTORY
mdb-export first appeared in MDB Tools 0.1. AUTHORS
The mdb-export utility was written by Brian Bruns. BUGS
Memo fields are allowed to contain a newline characters, the current program does nothing about this. 0.7 13 July 2013 MDBTools(1)
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