pipe2excel sends the contents of STDIN or specified files to Microsoft Excel as CSV data.

• Each CSV value is inserted as a string.
  • However, values matching /^\-?[1-9]\d*(\.\d*[1-9])?$/ are treated as numbers.
• The CSV encoding is automatically detected, supporting both UTF-8 and the system's current code page.

You can install pipe2excel in the following ways:

Download the binary package from the Releases page and extract the executable.

go install github.com/hymkor/pipe2excel@latest

scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hymkor/pipe2excel/master/pipe2excel.json

or

scoop bucket add hymkor https://github.com/hymkor/scoop-bucket
scoop install hymkor/pipe2excel

C:\> pipe2excel foo.csv bar.csv

C:\> type foo.csv | pipe2excel

This launches Microsoft Excel and opens the CSV files.

C:\> pipe2excel -o foo.xlsx foo.csv

It does not start Microsoft Excel. Instead, it creates foo.xlsx directly.

• -f string → Field Sperator (default ,)
• -o string → Save to a file and exit immediately without starting Excel
• -v → Show version information

• Fixed package dependency issues.
• Moved or copied some packages into the internal directory.
• Changed package owner to hymkor.

• Added Linux support (requires the -o option).
• #1 Fixed a panic when reading CSV from STDIN and using -o.

• When -o FILENAME is specified, use tealeg/xlsx instead of go-ole/go-ole.
• Removed -s and -q options; their features are now enabled by -o.

• Added the -f option to set the field separator.
• No longer treats negative integers as strings.

• Fixed COM release leak.
• Display help if no arguments are provided and STDIN is not redirected.

• Only treats values matching /^[1-9]\d*(\.\d*[1-9])?$/ as numbers.

• Inserted all cells as strings.
• Automatically detected encoding (UTF-8 or system code page) and removed the -u option.
• Added the -v option to display the version.

• Initial prototype.