11 Aug
2006
11 Aug
'06
2:03 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:41:05PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
I'm playing around with xls2csv (part of the catdoc application).
Something simple like: xls2csv -c~ products.xls > products.txt
does what I'd expect (exports the XLS, using "~" as the field separator).
Any suggestions how I can make this create a tab separated file instead?
I think this is more about how to pass the TAB through the shell (ie more to do with bash than xls2csv) but I could be wrong.
In an interactive bash, use Ctrl-V to quote the tab (i.e. to protect it from being interpreted as a request of command / filename completion).
This is a general feature of interactive programs based on readline, I believe.
Best regards, Jan
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