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 ⟨http://www.python-excel.org⟩.

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).