Hi. On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 05:48:31PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Is there a Linux application that will allow me to recover the > > contents of the file? > > As others have said, LibreOffice should do. I don't know about xlsx2csv,
It's the *best*. Small, relatively lightweight, and does the job in milliseconds. The output is limited to CSV though. > but an apt search on my box yields > > tomas@trotzki:~$ apt search ooxml > Sorting... Done > Full Text Search... Done > docx2txt/stable,stable,stable 1.4-0.1 all > Convert Microsoft OOXML files to plain text Not relevant. Input is xlsx. > libapache-poi-java/stable,stable,stable 3.10.1-3 all > Apache POI - Java API for Microsoft Documents > > libapache-poi-java-doc/stable,stable,stable 3.10.1-3 all > Apache POI - Java API for Microsoft Documents (Documentation) Suggesting using Java to parse XML in ZIP archive can be considered cruel and unusual punishment in certain countries. Besides, these are library and a documentation. Implementation of working parser is left as an exercise to a reader. > libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl/stable,stable,stable 0.95-1 all > module to create Excel spreadsheets in xlsx format That one's good, with one *litte* problem. Making the thing output any sensible result is *very* painful. > unoconv/stable,stable,stable 0.7-1.1 all > converter between LibreOffice document formats Don't. Just don't. unoconv is an ugly python script that launches headless Libreoffice and feeds the file to a resulting web-service. It has all the disadvantages of Libreoffice (CPU/Memory consumption, abysmal parsing speed, Libreoffice format limitations), and a single gain - an ability to batch-convert files. If Libreoffice is unable to open it - unoconv will do one absolutely no good. Also, 'apt search xlsx'. Reco
