Re: Reading Excel or Libreoffice files

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 27-Dec-16 22:43, TW wrote:
> You *can* use LibreOffice in a batch process. In Bash:
>
>   tmpdir=$(mktemp --directory)
>   soffice "-env:UserInstallation=file://""$tmpdir""/soffice" \
>           --headless --invisible --convert-to csv "$xslfile"
>
> The "-env:UserInstallation=..." part is to ensure that LibreOffice
> will not use the GUI even if there is an instance of LibreOffice with
> GUI already running.

Thanks to Hisham and to you; this could be very useful (last time I 
needed to read from an .ods file, I wrote a small XML parser...).

Even just lurking in this list [insert guilt here] is always rewarding :-)

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  Enrico