[sllug-members]: OT: bulk convert .xls to .txt tab delimited

[Steve Dibb]

Jared Bernard wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to bulk convert .xls files to .txt tab delimited
> files, in either Linux or Windows?
> 
> I have several financial .xls files that come to me at work and I have to
> convert them to .txt tab delimited files. It's getting very tedious to open
> each file one by one and save as .txt. If I could convert all 80 files at
> once that would save me tons of time and keep me from going completely
> postal.
> 
> Thanks,
> JB

catdoc can do it:

http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/

Steve