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Bruni
Asked: 2018-10-03 11:07:13 +0800 CST

How to combine multiple CSV files to one ods file on the command line. One sheet per original file

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How to combine multiple CSV files to one ods file, one sheet per file. I have ten CSV files and I would like to combine them to one ods file comprised of ten sheets, one per original CSV. This should be done on the command line.

bash csv

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  1. Best Answer

    With perl:

    #!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;
# CPAN modules required:
use Spreadsheet::Write;
use Text::CSV;

my $xlsx_file = shift @ARGV;
$xlsx_file .= ".xlsx" unless $xlsx_file =~ /\.xlsx$/;
my $xlsx = Spreadsheet::Write->new(file => $xlsx_file);
my $csv = Text::CSV->new({binary => 1});

for my $csv_file (@ARGV) {
    my @rows = ();
    open my $fh, "<:encoding(utf8)", $csv_file;
    while (my $row = $csv->getline($fh)) {
        push @rows, $row;
    }
    $csv->eof or $csv->error_diag();
    close $fh;  

    (my $sheet_name = $csv_file) =~ s/\.[^.]+$//;   # strip extension
    $xlsx->addsheet($sheet_name);
    $xlsx->addrows(@rows);
}
$xlsx->close();

    And use it like:

    /path/to/create_xlsx.pl file.xlsx *.csv

    If perl is not your thing, a bit of googling reveals:

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