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 〈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).