Creating Excel File From Bash Script output with python

Question

I have an output file which created from a bash script.

that output file is:

   xyz|xxx.local|Protocol 2|Root Acces Denied
   xyz|xxx1.local|Protocol 2|Root Acces Denied

I am trying to create Excel file from this which is going to be

 Column1  Column2     Column3       Column4
  xyz    xxx.local   Protocol 2  Root Acces Denied
  xyz    xxx.local   Protocol 2  Root Acces Denied

How can I do this with Python?

Answer 1

You can do that pretty very elegantly with pandas Dataframes. Check pandas.read_csv and pandas.DataFrame.to_excel .

If you are new to Python and you haven't worked with pandas so far, I recommend you to look up Python/xls questions here in stackoverflow (eg here ) and try those, before jumping on pandas.

Anyway, if you need a quick solution copy & paste this

import pandas as pd

# Load your bash output file in pandas dataframe
df = pd.read_csv('bash_outfile.out', sep='|', names=['Column1', 'Column2',
                                                     'Column3', 'Column4'])

# Open pandas ExcelWriter and write to *.xls file
with pd.ExcelWriter('my_xls.xls') as writer:
    df.to_excel(writer)

which will do what you want.