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Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 23:42:20 +0200
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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.