What's the most robust pastable concise way to demo *ledger bugs and features ? I like the brief format you used there, but it's not perfect. It didn't work for me because the "cat <<EOF" form eats the $8's. (I'm using bash in emacs.)

This is shorter and works here:

$ cat - | ledger -f - print
2009/01/01 Sample
    assets  134.123 FOO @ $8.88
    assets  100 BAR @ $8.88
    equity
(control-d)

Here it is again with the output, copy-pasted. A couple of things make it harder for the reader to copy-paste and try this on their system: first, email will probably wrap the long 87999999 line, second, it's not clear which is input and which is output:

$ cat - | ledger -f - print
2009/01/01 Sample
    assets  134.123 FOO @ $8.88
    assets  100 BAR @ $8.88
    equity
2009/01/01 Sample
assets 134.123 FOO @ $8.8799999999999999975
    assets                                   100 BAR @ $8.88
    equity

Better ideas ? Inquiring minds want to know.

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