Currently I have a script like so:
#!/bin/bash
#usage "script.sh file.xlsx"
libreoffice --headless --convert-to html $1 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
html=$(cat ${1%.xlsx}.html)
rm ${1%.xlsx}.html
#... work with ${html}
I was just wondering if I could do this without writing the file?
I didn’t see an option to select an output name either that is why I use ${1%.xlsx}.html as the filename
I have people send me xlsx files that have selected background colors and I wanted to write scripts to move things around as I needed. I found libreoffice’s html output to be easy to work with in my scripts and was just wondering if I could drop a couple step and save disk writes (I could always define a ramdisk and use the --outdir to point to ramdisk to stop it from writing to a real disk.)