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## Reporting options
## Common options
Part of hledger's usefulness is being able to report on just a precise
subset of your data. The following common features and options work
with most subcommands, allowing you to specify search criteria and
adjust the output.
The following common features and options work with most subcommands.
### Queries
Most commands accept an optional query expression, written as arguments
after the command name, to filter the data (or in some cases, to modify
the output). The syntax is similar to a Google search expression: one or
Part of hledger's usefulness is being able to report on just a precise subset of your data.
Most commands accept an optional query expression, written as arguments after the command name,
to filter the data by date, account name or other criteria.
The query syntax is similar to a Google search expression: one or
more space-separated search terms, optional prefixes to match specific
fields, quotes to enclose whitespace etc. Each query term can be any of
the following:
fields, quotes to enclose whitespace, etc.
A query term can be any of the following:
- `REGEX` - match account names by this regular expression
- `acct:REGEX` - same as above