excel-compare

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "## Introduction\n\nExcelCompare is a command line tool (coming soon API) to diff Excel / Open document (ods) (Open office, Libre office) spreadsheets.\n\nIt uses the [Apache POI](http://poi.apache.org) library to read Excel files.\nAnd the [OdfToolkit] (http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit) library to read Open document (ods) files.\n\nThis software is distributed under the [MIT](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT) license.\n\n## Features / Limitations\n\n* Identifies extra cells / sheets in addition to common cells.\n* Prints all diffs \u0026 extra cells on stdout.\n* Process exits with 0 if workbooks match, 1 otherwise.\n* Works with xls, xlsx, xlsm, ods. You may compare any of these with each other.\n* Compares only cell \"contents\". Formatting, macros are currently ignored.\n* Using --ignore1 \u0026 --ignore2 (both optional) you may tell the diff to skip any number of sheets / rows / columns / cells.\n* Other flags to control diffing (see below for description of these): --diff_numeric_precision, --diff_ignore_formulas, --diff_format.\n\nReport bugs / issues / requests [here](https://github.com/na-ka-na/ExcelCompare/issues)\n\n## Installation\n\n### Prerequisites\n\n* Requires Java 1.8 or higher.\n* Assumes Java is added to PATH (to check open a cmd and run java -version)\n* No other platform specific requirements\n* A shell script and a bat script are packaged\n\nJust [download](https://github.com/na-ka-na/ExcelCompare/releases) the zip file.\n\nExtract it anywhere (and optionally you add the extracted folder to PATH).\n\n### macOS\n\n[Homebrew](http://brew.sh/) makes it easy to install ExcelCompare:\n\n    $ brew update\n    $ brew install excel-compare\n\n## Usage\n\n    $ excel_cmp \u003cdiff-flags\u003e \u003cfile1\u003e \u003cfile2\u003e [--ignore1 \u003csheet-ignore-spec\u003e ..] [--ignore2 \u003csheet-ignore-spec\u003e ..]\n\nNotes:\n\n* --ignore1 (file1) and --ignore2 (file2) are independent of each other\n* Give one and only one \u0026lt;sheet-ignore-spec\u003e per sheet\n* File path is assumed relative to current directory unless full path is provided\n* file1 an",
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