Linux cli command runxlrd

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NAME 🖥️ runxlrd 🖥️

extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files

SYNOPSIS

runxlrd [options]* command *[input-file-patterns]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the runxlrd command.

runxlrd offers a commandline interface to the Python xlrd module; it extracts data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files. For a complete list of options and commands, run runxlrd with –help arguments.

OPTIONS

-h, –help
Show summary of options and exit.

**-l **logfilename
Contains error messages.

-v verbosity, –verbosity=verbosity
Level of information and diagnostics provided.

-m mmap, –mmap=mmap
1: use mmap; 0: don’t use mmap; -1: accept heuristic.

-e encoding, –encoding=encoding
Encoding override.

-f formatting, –formatting=formatting
0 (default): no fmt info 1: fmt info (all cells) 2: fmt info (margins trimmed).

-g gc, –gc=gc
0: auto gc enabled; 1: auto gc disabled, manual collect after each file; 2: no gc.

-s onesheet, –onesheet=onesheet
Restrict output to this sheet (name or index).

COMMANDS

Main commands are

  • 2rows

  • 3rows

  • bench

  • hdr

  • labels

  • names

  • ov

  • show

  • version

  • xfc

See the xlrd API documentation for the meaning of these commands.

EXAMPLES

To show the first, second and last rows of each sheet in each file, run

$ runxlrd 3rows *blah*.xls

Run

$ runxlrd -e koi8_r 3rows myfile.xls

to explicitly pass the needed codepage to xlrd, e.g. if the codepage record is missing, or if it exists but is wrong.

SEE ALSO

The xlrd API documentation, shipped in the file xlrd.html.
The xlrd website ⟨URL: http://www.python-excel.org ⟩.

AUTHOR

runxlrd was written by John Machin.

This manual page was written by Joost van Baal <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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