Convert xlsx to csv in Linux with command line

Question

I\'m looking for a way to convert xlsx files to csv files on Linux.

I do not want to use PHP/Perl or anything like that since I\'m looking at processing several mill

Answer 1

You can do this with LibreOffice:

libreoffice --headless --convert-to csv $filename --outdir $outdir

For reasons not clear to me, you might need to run this with sudo. You can make LibreOffice work with sudo without requiring a password by adding this line to you sudoers file:

users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: libreoffice