OT: Linux - convert csv to xlsx and xlsx to csv

[Richard D. Williams]

Mark,

Ok. After testing without the quotes, you are right.
They are not required.

But, if there are spaces in the path to the file, they would be needed.

Richard

On 3/30/2018 2:18 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 02:11:56PM -0500, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> # Please note the arguments MUST be enclosed in quotes
>> #i.e. /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/convert_xlsx.php "/tmp/file.xlsx"
>> "/tmp/file.csv"
> The only times that's true about quotes is if there are spaces or shell
> meta-characters in the filename.  The PHP script itself will never see
> the quotes, as the shell consumes them before passing along arguments in
> execve().
>
> 'MUST' is a large misnomer in this case.  It's arguably a best practise,
> but it's -not- mandatory outside of special conditions.
>
> mark->