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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to copy a column of multiple files and paste into new excel file (next to column)? Post 303033833 by RudiC on Friday 12th of April 2019 08:10:24 AM
Old 04-12-2019
I don't think that would work with *.xls. You should let us know which files to extract and to which to append.
 

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py_xls2txt(1)						      General Commands Manual						     py_xls2txt(1)

NAME
py_xls2txt - convert an Excel xls file to a plain text file SYNOPSIS
py_xls2txt input-file DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. py_xls2txt takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a plain text 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_xls2txt 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_xls2csv(1), py_xls2html(1) October 12, 2006 py_xls2txt(1)
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