runxlrd

Langue: en

Version: 2007-05-24 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

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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.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
Show summary of options and exit.
-l logfilename
Contains error messages.
-v verbosity, --verbosity=verbosity
Level of information and diagnostics provided.
-p pickleable, --pickleable=pickleable
1: ensure Book object is pickleable (default); 0: don't bother.
-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

Valid commands are
•
dump
•
count_records
•
version
•
hdr
•
ov
•
show
•
2rows
•
3rows
•
bench
•
names
•
name_dump
•
labels
•
xfc
•
hotshot
•
profile

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.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm >.

AUTHOR

runxlrd was written by John Machin.

This manual page was written by Joost van Baal <joostvb+debian@uvt.nl>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).