This is pretty great! I often need to find some previous transaction and don't remember where it is across multiple beancount files. I'll do a grep, which really just tells me which file(s) and line(s) to look at. Then I need to switch to an editor to actually see more context.
Anyway, a few thoughts from using it for a few minutes. - Maybe make -s/--somewhere/--anywhere a flag-less default so you can use it more like regular grep? That is: bean-grep foo my.beancount is equivalent to bean-grep -s foo my.beancount - A way to filter out transactions from closed accounts? Maybe even make that the default? It feels like it might be nice to have it auto-infer the type of search. 2002-12-30 means --date. #tag means --tag. I think you could do it for --meta, too? But maybe there's no good way to handle --account, --payee, and --narration without just turning it into --anywhere. On Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 7:35:00 PM UTC+7 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hello beancounters, I've just released a little tool that I've needed > for quite a while but didn't have[^]: beangrep, a grep-like filter for > Beancount ledgers. > > [^]: with the exception of grep.py from beanlabs at > https://github.com/beancount/beanlabs/blob/master/beanlabs/scripts/grep.py > which is more limited than my needs. > > It is meant to be way simpler than beanquery, but is super useful for > quick queries via the CLI. > > Beangrep is available at: https://github.com/zacchiro/beangrep > Its README is also attached to this email. > > The tool is almost feature complete for me, so it doesn't really have a > roadmap. But I welcome feedback and suggestions for improvements (or, > even better, patches!), that I'll be happy to consider. It is also not > uploaded to pypi yet, but if that's useful for others I'll be happy to > take care of that too. > > Thanks for all the beans! > Cheers > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli . za...@upsilon.cc . https://upsilon.cc/zack _. ^ ._ > Full professor of Computer Science o o o \/|V|\/ > Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris o o o </> <\> > Co-founder & CTO Software Heritage o o o o /\|^|/\ > https://twitter.com/zacchiro . https://mastodon.xyz/@zacchiro '" V "' > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/1a6bab93-fa16-4271-8382-b55c70a19d07n%40googlegroups.com.
