ExportAllToCsv

This is an addon for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org Calc to export all worksheets of a spreadsheet to multiple CSV files.

Installation

Pre-built packages are also available at the releases page.

1. Clone this repository to somewhere.
2. Run make install.
3. Then LibreOffice starts and shows a confirmation dialog for the installation. Click "OK".
4. Restart LibreOffice.

Usage

Choose "Tools" => "Add-on" => "Export All Sheets to CSV files" menuitem, then worksheets will be exported as "(basename of the original file).(worksheet's name).csv" files.

Command line utilities

This repository includes command line tools ods2csv and odscat under the bin directory. You need to install them to any location manually, like:

$ install -C bin/ods2csv ~/local/bin/
$ install -C bin/odscat ~/local/bin/

Not only ods (OpenDocument Format: LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org), but xls and xlsx (Microsoft Excel) are also available as the input.

ods2csv

It converts given files to CSV files. All CSV files are placed to the working directory.

This is very similar to ssconvert (a part of Gnumeric). ssconvert -S input.ods output.%s.csv also converts all worksheets to separate CSV files with worksheet name. If you don't worry to install Gnumeric, try it also!

odscat

It converts given files to CSV and output all to the standard output. It will be useful to compare multiple ods files with the diff command.

Combination with Git

If you hope to show differenfe of ods or xls(x) files via git diff, odscat will help you.

1. Register odscat as a filter. Put following configuration to your ~/.gitconfig:

   [diff "spreadsheet"]
           textconv = ~/local/bin/odscat
   

2. Specify spreadheet filter for files with specific extensions. Put following configuration to your ~/.gitattributes:

   *.ods diff=spreadsheet
   *.xls diff=spreadsheet
   *.xlsx diff=spreadsheet
   

Then you'll see CSV diff for ods files via git diff.