How can I tell xls2csv command to ignore the first x number of rows?

[jedatt01]

I have some excel workbooks where the column header is on row 7. How can I tell xls2csv to ignore the first 6 rows and start writing the cvs with headers on row 7?

[woodcock]

Is this really necessary? Probably ending like this will work:

... | xls2csv MyFileName | where ThisFieldDoesNotExist="So this will drop all events" | inputcsv MyFileName | streamstats count AS serial | search searial >=7 | fields - serial | outputcsv MyFileName

[jedatt01]

I see what you are getting at with this. My end goal is to injest the csv's into Splunk. One additional question. Is there a way to make the command pick up all xls files in the /var/run/Splunk directory instead of one by one with explicitly stating the file name?

[dominiquevocat]

Nope, not currently. Um, i never needed that but it would be possible to either do a custom command listing all files and modify the xls2csv to accept a prior search result with a list of paths/filenames and process them as a stream.