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

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Dear Andrius,

Many thanks for your prompt and helpful response!

Andrius Merkys (2020/12/14 08:16 +0200):
> 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].

My bad, sorry. Iwanted to write "dear maintainers" but while doing so I
was thinking that it was an upstream bug. My reason for submitting it as
a Debian bug was that I wanted to have a feedback not only in terms of
whether the feature can be included or not but also in terms of in which
version of the Debian package a fix would be included.

> > 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 '-'.

No I didn't because, after almost 20 years of use of Unix, I was simply
not aware of the existence of these files! So, many thanks for making me
realise their existence!

Best wishes and thanks again, feel free to close the bug. If I submit an
issue I can always write back to link it with the present bug report.

Sébastien.