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From: ray carter <ray@zianet.com>
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Subject: Re: Converting .xlsx to .csv?
Date: 12 Apr 2015 22:49:09 GMT
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On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 14:48:50 -0500, 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?

If you don't want a full office suite, I think your best bet is probably 
going to be 'gnumeric' - a more or less stand alone spreadsheet - it will 
export to CSV.  You might try 'xls2csv' from the 'catdoc' package or 
cobble something together with 'xlhtml'.