excel2csv

xls/xlsx/csv/tsv converter

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License

excel2csv  xls/xlsx/csv/tsv converter
Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Yasunobu OKAMURA

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Binary distribution license

The binary distribution of excel2csv includes following open source software. They are licensed by Apache License or GPL3.

Apache POI - the Java API for Microsoft Documents
Open CSV - a very simple csv (comma-separated values) parser library for Java
Table IO - Uniformed Table Reader and Writer for CSV, TSV and Excel Files
Args4j - API for parsing command line options passed to programs

Requirements

Java 8 or later

Install

Copy excel2csv to some where
Add PATH

Usage

usage: excel2csv [options] [INPUT...] [OUTPUT]
 -A         file type of output file will detect automatically (default)
 -a         file type of input file will detect automatically (default)
 -F         Overwrite sheet if exists
 -h         show help
 -i <arg>   Sheet index of input file (xls/xlsx only / default: 0)
 -s <arg>   Sheet name of input file (xls/xlsx only)
 -S <arg>   Sheet name candidate of output file (xls/xlsx only)

The file format is automatically detected by suffix. If an output xls/xlsx file is exists, excel2csv do not overwrite file. In this case excel2csv add a sheet to the file. By default, a name the of sheet is suggested from a input file name.

Convert xls to csv

excel2csv iris.xls iris.csv

Convert csv to xlsx and set sheet name as "iris"

excel2csv -S iris iris.csv iris.xlsx

Add tsv data to xlsx and set sheet name as "foo"

excel2csv -S foo foo.txt iris.xlsx

How to build

git clone https://github.com/informationsea/excel2csv.git
cd excel2csv
./gradlew clean build createExecutable nativePackage