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Old 12-17-2012
Excel from shell script

Is it possible to generate excel sheet from a shell script and rename the worksheet..?
Thanks for your answer
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Old 12-17-2012
If you want to work with worksheets then you have to use PERL, using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module.

Or you can create a CSV if you don't want to deal with multiple worksheets.
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