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@ -13,7 +13,129 @@ Perform some subset of reports available in core hledger but process automated
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and periodic transactions. Also simplify tree of accounts to ease view of
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"budget buckets".
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This addon tries to simulate behavior of "ledger --budget".
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For people familiar with [`ledger`
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budgeting](http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Budgeting) may
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consider this tool as an alias to `ledger --budget`.
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With this tool you may either use so called periodic transactions that being
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issued with each new period or use a family of approaches with automated
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transactions. You may want to look at [budgeting section of
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plaintextaccounting](http://plaintextaccounting.org/#budgeting).
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Periodic transaction that being interpreted by this tool may look like:
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```ledger
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~ monthly from 2017/3
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income:salary $-4,000.00
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expenses:taxes $1,000
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expenses:housing:rent $1,200
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expenses:grocery $400
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expenses:leisure $200
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expenses:health $200
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expenses $100
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assets:savings
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```
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Header of such entries starts with `'~'` (tilde symbol) following by an
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interval with an effect period when transactions should be injected.
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Effect of declaring such periodic transaction is:
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- Transactions will be injected at the beginning of each period. I.e. for
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monthly it will always refer to 1st day of month.
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- Injected transaction will have inverted amounts to offset existing associated
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expenses. I.e. for this example negative balance indicates how much you have
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within your budget and positive amounts indicates how far you off from your
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budget.
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- Set of accounts across of all periodic transactions will form kinda buckets
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where rest of the accounts will be sorted into. Each account not mentioned in
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any of periodic transaction will be dropped without changing of balance for
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parent account. I.e. for this example postings for `expenses:leisure:movie`
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will contribute to the balance of `expenses:leisure` only in reports.
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Note that beside a periodic transaction all automated transactions will be
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handled in a similar way how they are handled in `rewrite` command.
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#### Bucketing
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It is very common to have more expense accounts than budget
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"envelopes"/"buckets". For this reason all periodic transactions are treated as
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a source of information about your budget "buckets".
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I.e. example from previous section will build a sub-tree of accounts that look like
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```
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assets:savings
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expenses
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taxes
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housing:rent
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grocery
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leisure
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health
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income:salary
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```
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All accounts used in your transactions journal files will be classified
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according to that tree to contribute to an appropriate bucket of budget.
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Everything else will be collected under virtual account `<unbucketed>` to give
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you an idea of what parts of your accounts tree is not budgeted. For example
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`liabilities` will contributed to that entry.
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#### Reports
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You can use `budget` command to produce next reports:
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- `balance` - the most important one to track how you follow your budget. If
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you use month-based budgeting you may want to use `--monthly` and
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`--row-total` option to see how you are doing through the months. You also
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may find it useful to add `--tree` option to see aggregated totals per
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intermediate node of accounts tree.
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- `register` - might be useful if you want to see long history (ex. `--weekly`)
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that is too wide to fit into your terminal.
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- `print` - this is mostly to check what actually happens. But you may use it
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if you prefer to generate budget transactions and store it in a separate
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journal for some less popular budgeting scheme.
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#### Extra options for reports
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You may tweak behavior of this command with additional options `--no-offset` and `--no-bucketing`.
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- Don't use these options if your budgeting schema includes both periodic
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transactions, and "bucketing". Unless you want to figure out how your
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budgeting might look like. You may find helpful values of average column from
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report
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```shell
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$ hledger budget -- bal --period 'monthly to last month' --no-offset --average
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```
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- Use `--no-offset` and `--no-bucketing` if your schema fully relies on
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automated transactions and hand-crafted budgeting transactions. In this mode
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only automated transactions will be processed. I.e. when you journal looks
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something like
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```ledger
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= ^expenses:food
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budget:gifts *-1
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assets:budget *1
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2017/1/1 Budget for Jan
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assets:bank $-1000
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budget:gifts $200
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budget:misc
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```
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- Use `--no-bucketing` only if you want to produce a valid journal. For example
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when you want to pass it as an input for other `hledger` command. Most people
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will find this useless.
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#### Recommendations
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- Automated transaction should follow same rules that usual transactions follow
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(i.e. keep balance for real and balanced virtual postings).
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- Don't change the balance of real asset and liability accounts for which you
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usually put assertions. Keep in mind that `hledger` do not apply modification
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transactions.
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- In periodic transactions to offset your budget use either top-level account
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like `Assets` or introduce a "virtual" one like `Assets:Bank:Budget` that
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will be a child to the one you want to offset.
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-}
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import Control.Arrow (first)
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cmdmode :: Mode RawOpts
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cmdmode = (defAddonCommandMode "equity") {
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modeHelp = [here|
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Print a "closing balances" transaction that brings all accounts (or with
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query arguments, just the matched accounts) to a zero balance, followed by an
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opposite "opening balances" transaction that restores the balances from zero.
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Such transactions can be useful, eg, for bringing account balances across
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file boundaries.
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|]
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,modeHelpSuffix=lines [here|
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The opening balances transaction is useful to carry over
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asset/liability balances if you choose to start a new journal file,
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eg at the beginning of the year.
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@ -39,20 +42,22 @@ the closing transaction is dated one day earlier). If a report end
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date is not specified, it defaults to today.
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Example:
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```
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```shell
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$ hledger equity -f 2015.journal -e 2016/1/1 assets liabilities >>2015.journal
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# & move the opening balances transaction to 2016.journal
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# move the opening balances transaction to 2016.journal
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$ hledger -f 2015.journal bal assets liabilities not:desc:closing # shows correct 2015 balances
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$ hledger -f 2016.journal bal assets liabilities # shows correct 2016 balances
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$ hledger -f 2015.journal -f 2016.journal bal assets liabilities # still shows correct 2016 balances
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```
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Open question: how to handle txns spanning a file boundary ? Eg:
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```journal
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2015/12/30 * food
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expenses:food:dining $10
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assets:bank:checking -$10 ; date:2016/1/4
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```
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This command might or might not have some connection to the concept of
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"closing the books" in accounting.
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|]
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,modeArgs = ([], Just $ argsFlag "[QUERY]")
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}
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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cmdmode = (defAddonCommandMode "print-unique") {
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modeHelp = [here|
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Print only journal entries which are unique by description (or
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something else). Reads the default or specified journal, or stdin.
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Remove transactions which reuse an already-seen description.
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,modeHelpSuffix=lines [here|
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Example:
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```shell
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$ cat unique.journal
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1/1 test
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(acct:one) 1
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2/2 test
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(acct:two) 2
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$ LEDGER_FILE=unique.journal hledger print-unique
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(-f option not supported)
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2015/01/01 test
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(acct:one) 1
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```
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}
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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in m {
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modeHelp = [here|
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Print all journal entries, with custom postings added to the matched ones
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Print all transactions, adding custom postings to the matched ones.
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,modeHelpSuffix=lines [here|
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A start at a generic rewriter of journal entries.
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Reads the default journal and prints the entries, like print,
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but adds the specified postings to any entries matching PATTERNS.
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This is a start at a generic rewriter of transaction entries.
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It reads the default journal and prints the transactions, like print,
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but adds one or more specified postings to any transactions matching QUERY.
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The posting amounts can be fixed, or a multiplier of the existing transaction's first posting amount.
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Examples:
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```
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```
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Note the single quotes to protect the dollar sign from bash,
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and the two spaces between account and amount.
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See the command-line help for more details.
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Currently does not work when invoked via hledger, run it directly instead.
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Related: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/99
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More:
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TODO:
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- should allow regex matching and interpolating matched name in replacement
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- should apply all matching rules to a transaction, not just one
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- should be possible to use this on unbalanced entries, eg while editing one
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```shell
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$ hledger rewrite -- [QUERY] --add-posting "ACCT AMTEXPR" ...
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$ hledger rewrite -- ^income --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33'
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$ hledger rewrite -- expenses:gifts --add-posting '(budget:gifts) *-1"'
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```
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Argument for `--add-posting` option is a usual posting of transaction with an
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exception for amount specification. More precisely you can use `'*'` (star
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symbol) in place of currency to indicate that that this is a factor for an
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amount of original matched posting.
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#### Re-write rules in a file
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During the run this tool will execute so called
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["Automated Transactions"](http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Automated-Transactions)
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found in any journal it process. I.e instead of specifying this operations in
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command line you can put them in a journal file.
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```shell
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$ rewrite-rules.journal
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```
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Make contents look like this:
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```journal
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= ^income
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(liabilities:tax) *.33
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= expenses:gifts
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budget:gifts *-1
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assets:budget *1
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```
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Note that `'='` (equality symbol) that is used instead of date in transactions
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you usually write. It indicates the query by which you want to match the
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posting to add new ones.
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```shell
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$ hledger rewrite -- -f input.journal -f rewrite-rules.journal > rewritten-tidy-output.journal
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```
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This is something similar to the commands pipeline:
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```shell
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$ hledger rewrite -- -f input.journal '^income' --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33' \
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| hledger rewrite -- -f - expenses:gifts --add-posting 'budget:gifts *-1' \
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--add-posting 'assets:budget *1' \
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> rewritten-tidy-output.journal
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```
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It is important to understand that relative order of such entries in journal is
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important. You can re-use result of previously added postings.
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#### Diff output format
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To use this tool for batch modification of your journal files you may find
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useful output in form of unified diff.
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```shell
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$ hledger rewrite -- --diff -f examples/sample.journal '^income' --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33'
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```
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Output might look like:
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```diff
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--- /tmp/examples/sample.journal
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+++ /tmp/examples/sample.journal
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@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
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2008/01/01 income
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- assets:bank:checking $1
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+ assets:bank:checking $1
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income:salary
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+ (liabilities:tax) 0
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@@ -22,3 +23,4 @@
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2008/06/01 gift
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- assets:bank:checking $1
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+ assets:bank:checking $1
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income:gifts
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+ (liabilities:tax) 0
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```
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If you'll pass this through `patch` tool you'll get transactions containing the
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posting that matches your query be updated. Note that multiple files might be
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update according to list of input files specified via `--file` options and
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`include` directives inside of these files.
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Be careful. Whole transaction being re-formatted in a style of output from
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`hledger print`.
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See also:
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https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/99
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,modeArgs = ([], Just $ argsFlag "[QUERY] --add-posting \"ACCT AMTEXPR\" ...")
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}
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-- TODO regex matching and interpolating matched name in replacement
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-- TODO interpolating match groups in replacement
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-- TODO allow using this on unbalanced entries, eg to rewrite while editing
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outputflags :: [Flag RawOpts]
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outputflags = [flagNone ["diff"] (setboolopt "diff") "generate diff suitable as an input for patch tool"]
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the [extra](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/extra) directory in the hledger source,
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or elsewhere:
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## api
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## Official add-ons
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These are maintained and released along with hledger.
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### api
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Web API server, see [hledger-api](hledger-api.html).
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## autosync
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Download OFX bank data and/or convert OFX to hledger journal format.
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### ui
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Curses-style interface, see [hledger-ui](hledger-ui.html).
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```shell
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$ hledger autosync --help
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usage: hledger-autosync [-h] [-m MAX] [-r] [-a ACCOUNT] [-l LEDGER] [-i INDENT]
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[--initial] [--fid FID] [--assertions] [-d] [--hledger]
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[--slow] [--which]
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[PATH]
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### web
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Web interface, see [hledger-web](hledger-web.html).
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Synchronize ledger.
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## Third party add-ons
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positional arguments:
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PATH do not sync; import from OFX file
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These are maintained separately from hledger, and usually updated shortly after a hledger release.
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optional arguments:
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-h, --help show this help message and exit
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-m MAX, --max MAX maximum number of days to process
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-r, --resync do not stop until max days reached
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-a ACCOUNT, --account ACCOUNT
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set account name for import
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-l LEDGER, --ledger LEDGER
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specify ledger file to READ for syncing
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-i INDENT, --indent INDENT
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number of spaces to use for indentation
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--initial create initial balance entries
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--fid FID pass in fid value for OFX files that do not supply it
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--assertions create balance assertion entries
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-d, --debug enable debug logging
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--hledger force use of hledger (on by default if invoked as hledger-
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autosync)
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--slow use slow, but possibly more robust, method of calling ledger
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(no subprocess)
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--which display which version of ledger/hledger/ledger-python will
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be used by ledger-autosync to check for previous
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transactions
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$ head acct1.ofx
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OFXHEADER:100
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DATA:OFXSGML
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VERSION:102
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SECURITY:NONE
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ENCODING:USASCII
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CHARSET:1252
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COMPRESSION:NONE
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OLDFILEUID:NONE
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NEWFILEUIDe:8509488b59d1bb45
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$ hledger autosync acct1.ofx
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2013/08/30 MONTHLY SERVICE FEE
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; ofxid: 3000.4303001832.201308301
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WF:4303001832 -$6.00
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[assets:business:bank:wf:bchecking:banking] $6.00
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```
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[ledger-autosync](https://bitbucket.org/egh/ledger-autosync/commits/all),
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which includes a `hledger-autosync` alias, downloads transactions
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from your bank(s) via OFX, and prints just the new ones as journal
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entries which you can add to your journal. It can also operate on .OFX
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files which you've downloaded manually. It can be a nice alternative
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to hledger's built-in CSV reader, especially if your bank supports OFX
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download.
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## diff
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### diff
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Show transactions present in one journal file but not another
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```shell
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not in the other. This can be useful for reconciling existing
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journals with bank statements.
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## equity
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Print a journal entry that resets account balances to zero.
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```shell
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$ hledger balance --flat -E assets liabilities
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0 assets:bank:checking
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$1 assets:bank:saving
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$-2 assets:cash
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$1 liabilities:debts
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--------------------
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0
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$ hledger equity assets liabilities
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2015/05/23
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assets:bank:saving $-1
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assets:cash $2
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liabilities:debts $-1
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equity:closing balances 0
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2015/05/23
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assets:bank:saving $1
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assets:cash $-2
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liabilities:debts $1
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equity:opening balances 0
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```
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This prints a journal entry which zeroes out the specified accounts
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(or all accounts) with a transfer to/from "equity:closing balances"
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(like Ledger's equity command). Also, it prints an similar entry with
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opposite sign for restoring the balances from "equity:opening
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balances".
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These can be useful for ending one journal file and starting a new
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one, respectively. By zeroing your asset and liability accounts at the
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end of a file and restoring them at the start of the next one, you
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will see correct asset/liability balances whether you run hledger on
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just one file, or on several files concatenated with [include](#include).
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## interest
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### interest
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Generate interest transactions.
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```shell
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@ -833,7 +745,7 @@ supports a (small) number of interest schemes, i.e. annual interest
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with a fixed rate and the scheme mandated by the German BGB288
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(Basiszins für Verbrauchergeschäfte). See the package page for more.
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## irr
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### irr
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Calculate internal rate of return.
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```shell
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@ -902,248 +814,50 @@ fees, or cost), it calculates the hypothetical annual rate of fixed
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rate investment that would have provided the exact same cash flow.
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See the package page for more.
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## print-unique
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Print only only journal entries which have a unique description.
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## Experimental add-ons
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These add-ons are available in source form
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[in the hledger repo](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/bin).
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Installing them is [pretty easy](/download.html#d).
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Reading and copying these is a good way to start making your own add-ons.
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```shell
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$ cat unique.journal
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1/1 test
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(acct:one) 1
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2/2 test
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(acct:two) 2
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$ LEDGER_FILE=unique.journal hledger print-unique
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(-f option not supported)
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2015/01/01 test
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(acct:one) 1
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### budget
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```
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[hledger-budget.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-budget.hs#L10)
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A tool adding more budget-tracking features to hledger.
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## rewrite
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Prints all journal entries, adding specified custom postings to matched entries.
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### chart
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[hledger-rewrite.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-rewrite.hs),
|
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in hledger's extra directory (compilation optional), adds postings to existing transactions,
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optionally with an amount based on the existing transaction's first amount. See the script for more details.
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[hledger-chart.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-chart.hs#L47)
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An old pie chart generator, in need of some love.
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|
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```shell
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$ hledger rewrite -- [QUERY] --add-posting "ACCT AMTEXPR" ...
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$ hledger rewrite -- ^income --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33'
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$ hledger rewrite -- expenses:gifts --add-posting '(budget:gifts) *-1"'
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```
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### check-dates
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|
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Argument for `--add-posting` option is a usual posting of transaction with an
|
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exception for amount specification. More precisely you can use `'*'` (star
|
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symbol) in place of currency to indicate that that this is a factor for an
|
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amount of original matched posting.
|
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[hledger-check-dates.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-check-dates.hs#L15)
|
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Checks that journal entries are ordered by date.
|
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|
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### Re-write rules in a file
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### dupes
|
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|
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During the run this tool will execute so called
|
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["Automated Transactions"](http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Automated-Transactions)
|
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found in any journal it process. I.e instead of specifying this operations in
|
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command line you can put them in a journal file.
|
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[hledger-dupes.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-dupes.hs#L21)
|
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Checks for account names sharing the same leaf name.
|
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|
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```shell
|
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$ rewrite-rules.journal
|
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```
|
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### equity
|
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|
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Make contents look like this:
|
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[hledger-equity.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-equity.hs#L17)
|
||||
Prints balance-resetting transactions useful for bringing account balances across file boundaries.
|
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|
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```journal
|
||||
= ^income
|
||||
(liabilities:tax) *.33
|
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### print-unique
|
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|
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= expenses:gifts
|
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budget:gifts *-1
|
||||
assets:budget *1
|
||||
```
|
||||
[print-unique](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-print-unique.hs#L15)
|
||||
Remove transactions which reuse an already-seen description.
|
||||
|
||||
Note that `'='` (equality symbol) that is used instead of date in transactions
|
||||
you usually write. It indicates the query by which you want to match the
|
||||
posting to add new ones.
|
||||
### register-match
|
||||
|
||||
```shell
|
||||
$ hledger rewrite -- -f input.journal -f rewrite-rules.journal > rewritten-tidy-output.journal
|
||||
```
|
||||
[hledger-register-match.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-register-match.hs#L23)
|
||||
Helps ledger-autosync recognise already-imported transactions.
|
||||
|
||||
This is something similar to the commands pipeline:
|
||||
### rewrite
|
||||
|
||||
```shell
|
||||
$ hledger rewrite -- -f input.journal '^income' --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33' \
|
||||
| hledger rewrite -- -f - expenses:gifts --add-posting 'budget:gifts *-1' \
|
||||
--add-posting 'assets:budget *1' \
|
||||
> rewritten-tidy-output.journal
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
It is important to understand that relative order of such entries in journal is
|
||||
important. You can re-use result of previously added postings.
|
||||
|
||||
### Diff output format
|
||||
|
||||
To use this tool for batch modification of your journal files you may find
|
||||
useful output in form of unified diff.
|
||||
|
||||
```shell
|
||||
$ hledger rewrite -- --diff -f examples/sample.journal '^income' --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33'
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Output might look like:
|
||||
|
||||
```diff
|
||||
--- /tmp/examples/sample.journal
|
||||
+++ /tmp/examples/sample.journal
|
||||
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
|
||||
2008/01/01 income
|
||||
- assets:bank:checking $1
|
||||
+ assets:bank:checking $1
|
||||
income:salary
|
||||
+ (liabilities:tax) 0
|
||||
@@ -22,3 +23,4 @@
|
||||
2008/06/01 gift
|
||||
- assets:bank:checking $1
|
||||
+ assets:bank:checking $1
|
||||
income:gifts
|
||||
+ (liabilities:tax) 0
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
If you'll pass this through `patch` tool you'll get transactions containing the
|
||||
posting that matches your query be updated. Note that multiple files might be
|
||||
update according to list of input files specified via `--file` options and
|
||||
`include` directives inside of these files.
|
||||
|
||||
Be careful. Whole transaction being re-formatted in a style of output from
|
||||
`hledger print`.
|
||||
|
||||
## budget
|
||||
This tool helps to get reports useful for planning and tracking the budget.
|
||||
|
||||
For people familiar with [`ledger`
|
||||
budgeting](http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Budgeting) may
|
||||
consider this tool as an alias to `ledger --budget`.
|
||||
|
||||
With this tool you may either use so called periodic transactions that being
|
||||
issued with each new period or use a family of approaches with automated
|
||||
transactions. You may want to look at [budgeting section of
|
||||
plaintextaccounting](http://plaintextaccounting.org/#budgeting).
|
||||
|
||||
Periodic transaction that being interpreted by this tool may look like:
|
||||
|
||||
```ledger
|
||||
~ monthly from 2017/3
|
||||
income:salary $-4,000.00
|
||||
expenses:taxes $1,000
|
||||
expenses:housing:rent $1,200
|
||||
expenses:grocery $400
|
||||
expenses:leisure $200
|
||||
expenses:health $200
|
||||
expenses $100
|
||||
assets:savings
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Header of such entries starts with `'~'` (tilde symbol) following by an
|
||||
interval with an effect period when transactions should be injected.
|
||||
|
||||
Effect of declaring such periodic transaction is:
|
||||
|
||||
- Transactions will be injected at the beginning of each period. I.e. for
|
||||
monthly it will always refer to 1st day of month.
|
||||
- Injected transaction will have inverted amounts to offset existing associated
|
||||
expenses. I.e. for this example negative balance indicates how much you have
|
||||
within your budget and positive amounts indicates how far you off from your
|
||||
budget.
|
||||
- Set of accounts across of all periodic transactions will form kinda buckets
|
||||
where rest of the accounts will be sorted into. Each account not mentioned in
|
||||
any of periodic transaction will be dropped without changing of balance for
|
||||
parent account. I.e. for this example postings for `expenses:leisure:movie`
|
||||
will contribute to the balance of `expenses:leisure` only in reports.
|
||||
|
||||
Note that beside a periodic transaction all automated transactions will be
|
||||
handled in a similar way how they are handled in `rewrite` command.
|
||||
|
||||
### Bucketing
|
||||
It is very common to have more expense accounts than budget
|
||||
"envelopes"/"buckets". For this reason all periodic transactions are treated as
|
||||
a source of information about your budget "buckets".
|
||||
|
||||
I.e. example from previous section will build a sub-tree of accounts that look like
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
assets:savings
|
||||
expenses
|
||||
taxes
|
||||
housing:rent
|
||||
grocery
|
||||
leisure
|
||||
health
|
||||
income:salary
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
All accounts used in your transactions journal files will be classified
|
||||
according to that tree to contribute to an appropriate bucket of budget.
|
||||
|
||||
Everything else will be collected under virtual account `<unbucketed>` to give
|
||||
you an idea of what parts of your accounts tree is not budgeted. For example
|
||||
`liabilities` will contributed to that entry.
|
||||
|
||||
### Reports
|
||||
You can use `budget` command to produce next reports:
|
||||
|
||||
- `balance` - the most important one to track how you follow your budget. If
|
||||
you use month-based budgeting you may want to use `--monthly` and
|
||||
`--row-total` option to see how you are doing through the months. You also
|
||||
may find it useful to add `--tree` option to see aggregated totals per
|
||||
intermediate node of accounts tree.
|
||||
- `register` - might be useful if you want to see long history (ex. `--weekly`)
|
||||
that is too wide to fit into your terminal.
|
||||
- `print` - this is mostly to check what actually happens. But you may use it
|
||||
if you prefer to generate budget transactions and store it in a separate
|
||||
journal for some less popular budgeting scheme.
|
||||
|
||||
### Extra options for reports
|
||||
You may tweak behavior of this command with additional options `--no-offset` and `--no-bucketing`.
|
||||
|
||||
- Don't use these options if your budgeting schema includes both periodic
|
||||
transactions, and "bucketing". Unless you want to figure out how your
|
||||
budgeting might look like. You may find helpful values of average column from
|
||||
report
|
||||
|
||||
```shell
|
||||
$ hledger budget -- bal --period 'monthly to last month' --no-offset --average
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
- Use `--no-offset` and `--no-bucketing` if your schema fully relies on
|
||||
automated transactions and hand-crafted budgeting transactions. In this mode
|
||||
only automated transactions will be processed. I.e. when you journal looks
|
||||
something like
|
||||
|
||||
```ledger
|
||||
= ^expenses:food
|
||||
budget:gifts *-1
|
||||
assets:budget *1
|
||||
|
||||
2017/1/1 Budget for Jan
|
||||
assets:bank $-1000
|
||||
budget:gifts $200
|
||||
budget:misc
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
- Use `--no-bucketing` only if you want to produce a valid journal. For example
|
||||
when you want to pass it as an input for other `hledger` command. Most people
|
||||
will find this useless.
|
||||
|
||||
### Recommendations
|
||||
- Automated transaction should follow same rules that usual transactions follow
|
||||
(i.e. keep balance for real and balanced virtual postings).
|
||||
- Don't change the balance of real asset and liability accounts for which you
|
||||
usually put assertions. Keep in mind that `hledger` do not apply modification
|
||||
transactions.
|
||||
- In periodic transactions to offset your budget use either top-level account
|
||||
like `Assets` or introduce a "virtual" one like `Assets:Bank:Budget` that
|
||||
will be a child to the one you want to offset.
|
||||
|
||||
## ui
|
||||
Curses-style interface, see [hledger-ui](hledger-ui.html).
|
||||
|
||||
## web
|
||||
Web interface, see [hledger-web](hledger-web.html).
|
||||
[hledger-rewrite.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-rewrite.hs#L28)
|
||||
Adds one or more custom postings to matched transactions.
|
||||
|
||||
|
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