Utility converters old
Excel
spreadsheets (.xls, .xlw) to plain text
tab-separated file:
rows in individual lines with cells separated by tabs (\t, U+0009).
In all-sheets mode form feed (\f, U+000C) is emitted between sheets.
For Linux and FreeBSD.
xls2txt [-C charset] -l sheet.xls
xls2txt [-C charset] [-n sheetnum|-A] [-f] sheet.xls [X:X]
usage: xls2txt [-C cs] [-n sheetnum|-A] [-f] file.xls [X:X]
xls2txt [-C cs] -l file.xls
X:X cell range (eg. A1:C5, D2:E)
-l list sheets
-n num select sheet
-A all sheets (\f separated)
-C cs output charset (utf8 asc iso1 iso2), utf8 is default
-f don't try to format numbers
-a ascii output (same as -C asc)