[Solved] Convert .ods file to csv

[Hagar Delest]

Hello!

Can someone help me to convert from .ods file to csv. I tried soffice --headless --convert-to csv filename.ods, but it is not working. It just opens the .ods file.

[acknak]

Greetings and welcome to the community forum!

The command line you quoted works for me with AOO 4.1.2. You may need to track down what "soffice" at the command line actually does. It could be a shell script that doesn't process the options as expected. If so, directly starting the soffice executable that comes with OO using the full path (that's what I did when it worked).

Also, are you still using OO 3.4.1? That's pretty old at this point. It might be worth at least trying the current version.

[MrProgrammer]

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

I tried soffice --headless --convert-to csv filename.ods, but it is not working.

"it is not working" isn't helpful in the forum because it tells us what did not happen. Please never use that phrase in a post. We need to know exactly what actions you took, what did happen, and what you expected to happen. Often "it didn't work" means "it didn't do what I expected" and the real problem is that the system is behaving correctly but your expectations are incorrect.

Perhaps your problem is that the operating system can't find the soffice module. Help it by providing the full path in the command, which in my case is /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice …, or by using the cd command to make the directory containing soffice the current directory and using ./soffice ….

If this solved your problem please go to your first post use the Edit button and add [Solved] to the start of the title. You can select the green checkmark icon at the same time.

[Villeroy]

You've got to use LibreOffice rather than OpenOffice. The latter does not know any --convert-to option.

[acknak]

Ouch. Villeroy is exactly right. I should take my own suggestion: the "soffice" I was using was actually starting LibO, not AOO.

Sorry, my bad.

[CJenR]

Thank you for all the inputs!

Though soffice does not throw me any error, I believe as you said, it doesn't know --convert-to option. As of now I can not change openoffice version or to LibreOffice. Is there any other way to convert my ods file to csv in this AOO version?

[RoryOF]

What's wrong with /File /Save As : Text CSV (.csv) from the dropdown?

[CJenR]

No.. My shell script has to do it. No manual intervention. So, Is there any other ways to do it? or any other suggestion.

[RoryOF]

No.. My shell script has to do it. No manual intervention. So, Is there any other ways to do it? or any other suggestion.

You didn't say that - you asked about "file" in the singular.
Macro at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=19695
and another at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2551
and more at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=75404

These may need some fine tuning because of changes in OO/LibO code, but as you wish to use a macro you are no doubt prepared to do that.

[CJenR]

I went through the links though I was hoping for a simpler solution instead of using a Macro
I came across unoconv package which can be used to convert files. I installed it and It worked as a charm.

Anyway thank you for helping me!