RUNXLRD(1)

💖 RUNXLRD(1) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the runxlrd page from the General Commands Manual, and no I will not be normal about it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

runxlrd — extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

runxlrd [options] command [input-file-patterns]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So, this manual page documents the runxlrd command, but like… briefly. A lil snack, not a whole meal. 🙈

Here's the tea: runxlrd is a commandline interface to the Python xlrd module, and it extracts data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files. periodt. 💖

And listen — if you want the complete list of options and commands, just run runxlrd with --help arguments. She will tell you everything, she's not shy. ✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help — shows you a lil summary of the options and then exits. a queen who knows when to leave 💅
• -l logfilename — this is where the error messages go. your receipts, basically 🧾
• -v verbosity, --verbosity=verbosity — how much information and diagnostics you want. dial the yapping up or down 🗣️
• -m mmap, --mmap=mmap — 1: use mmap; 0: don't use mmap; -1: accept heuristic. pick your fighter 🥊
• -e encoding, --encoding=encoding — encoding override. when the vibes are wrong, you fix the vibes 🛠️
• -f formatting, --formatting=formatting — 0 (default): no fmt info · 1: fmt info (all cells) · 2: fmt info (margins trimmed). the glow-up levels ✨
• -g gc, --gc=gc — 0: auto gc enabled; 1: auto gc disabled, manual collect after each file; 2: no gc. spring cleaning, but for memory 🧹
• -s onesheet, --onesheet=onesheet — restrict output to this sheet (name or index). monogamy, but for spreadsheets 💜

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🌈 COMMANDS 🌈

The main commands are:

• 2rows
• 3rows
• bench
• hdr
• labels
• names
• ov
• show
• version
• xfc

iykyk: go check the xlrd API documentation for the meaning of these commands, bestie. I'm not gonna spoil the plot 🫶

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

Wanna show the first, second and last rows of each sheet in each file? Run:

$ runxlrd 3rows *blah*.xls

And then run:

$ runxlrd -e koi8_r 3rows myfile.xls

to explicitly pass the needed codepage to xlrd — like, for example, if the codepage record is missing, or if it exists but is wrong. messy of it, honestly 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• The xlrd API documentation, shipped in the file xlrd.html.
• The xlrd website ⟨http://www.python-excel.org⟩.

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

runxlrd was written by John Machin. iconic behavior 👑

This manual page was written by Joost van Baal <joostvb+debian@uvt.nl>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). the way that the Debian girlies really carried this whole thing 😭💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! ✨ this was xlrd 0.9.2, dated 2007-05-24 — yes she's vintage, yes she still eats 💅 mwah, go read a spreadsheet 🫶💖