Bug#977293: Read .xlsx from stdin, write .csv to stdout

[Andrius Merkys]

Hello,

On 2020-12-13 19:00, Sebastien Hinderer wrote:
> Dear upstream authors,

Debian is not the upstream of this package. Bug reports filed in Debian
BTS are not automatically forwarded to upstream either. To contact the
upstream, I suggest opening an issue on their GitHub issue tracker [1].

> Would it please be possible to extend is so that "-" ban be specified
> both as the name of the input file (meaning to read the .xlsx file
> from standard input) and as the name of the output file, meaning that
> the CSV file is written to stdout?
> 
> That way the program could be used in a pipe, which would be very
> convenient. Of course that requires to make sure that all the
> other messages the program could possibly produce are written to stderr.

Have you tried using /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout on the command line?
This usually does the trick for commands not accepting '-'.

[1] https://github.com/dilshod/xlsx2csv/issues

Best,
Andrius