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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:26:40 +0200
From: dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not>
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Subject: Re: Converting .xlsx to .csv?
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On 04/13/2015 01:57 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sun, 12 Apr 2015 23:42:20 +0200 dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 04/11/2015 09:48 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
>>> Does there exist a *CLI* program to convert .xlsx files to .csv files?
>>>
>>> There are not any formulas or macros or anything like that in the files in
>>> question.
>>>
>>> *I* don't have OpenOffice or LibreOffice installed on my Linux machine.  *I*
>>> don't use <mumble>Office programs.  I know I can isntall OpenOffice but it is
>>> a beast that I am clueless about using, since I don't use it and don't really
>>> know how to use it and have never in my 45 years of computer programming -- I
>>> just don't deal with things that way.
>>>
>>> If there isn't a simple CLI program to do this, is there any documentation on
>>> the format of the file that I can use to write such a program?
>>>
>>
>> xlsx2csv 0.7.1 could be what you're looking for:
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlsx2csv
>> Python, obviously, but there are some alternatives listed on that page.
>
> Nothing wrong with Python. And I bet that is a nice little program (and there
> is probably a *small* RPM somewhere -- yep, looks like it is on pkgs.org. This
> program did NOT show up in a web search.
>
>>
>>
>
Well, it did show up in my web search :)
When you're looking for something to convert "this" to "that", there 
usually is some small script or program named "this2that" out there.