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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ho to remove leading zeros from a csv file which is sent from a UNIX script Post 302989551 by kshji on Saturday 14th of January 2017 10:09:01 AM
Old 01-14-2017
Shortly:
You have csv file which is something like:
Code:
00001,0012
...

And when you open in Excel by clicking your email attachment, the looks like:
Code:
1,12
...

It's Excel import default. I have not found any setup in Excel where you can change those defaults. So: M$ knows better what you need as you Smilie. If it looks number then it's number and you don't need leading 0's. If excel import string which include only numbers then it can't be string ...

If you like to keep those leading 0's in numbered string then you need import file to Excel:
* save your Attachment to some.csv
* Import a text file by opening it in Excel
* use wizard
* setup delimiter, setup those columns to text type, not default
And you have leading 0's. So they I have planned in Seattle. It have to be difficult to say that this is string, not number.


You can use example ssconvert to convert csv to xls including some defaults ..., but if you change those fields to excel string formattadding ' before values '00001,'00012 then ssconvert ex2.csv ex2.xls 2>/dev/null fields look nice including 0's and send it.

ssconvert can be installed to the Ubuntu and Debian:
Code:
apt-get install gnumeric

The best solution:
Code:
easy install csv2xlsx  xlsx2csv
csv2xlsx --delimiter "," 'utf-8' SheetName < ex1.csv > ex1.xlsx


Last edited by rbatte1; 01-16-2017 at 07:04 AM.. Reason: Changed some CODE tags to ICODE tags to ease the reading flow
 

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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-ALSO pyexcelerator(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2html(1) October 12, 2006 py_xls2csv(1)
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