The --budget feature was mentioned as one option, what I ended up doing for
myself was to just make a dip simple script to call register with three
different
subgroups of expenses. It lets me break down my expenses into taxes,
into fixed expenses (e.g., rent, utilities, and insurance), and into "other"
(e.g., dining out, groceries).
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# = 0 ]; then
year=`date +%Y`;
month=`date +%m`;
period="-p ${year}-${month}";
elif [ $# = 1 -a "$1" = "-a" ]; then
period="";
elif [ $# = 2 -a "$1" = "-p" ]; then
period="$@";
else
echo "usage: expenses [-a | -p <period>]" 1>&2;
exit;
fi
register="ledger --columns 155 --payee-width=14 $period -s register";
total=`${register} -n ^expenses: | awk '{total=$NF; gsub("[$,]", "",
total); print total; }'`;
percnt() {
awk '{if ( NR > 1 ) {printf("\n")} printf(" %s", $0)}
END {subtotal=$NF; gsub("[$,]", "", subtotal); if (total > 0) {percent =
(subtotal/total)*100} else {percent = 0} printf(" ~ (%0.2f%%)\n\n",
percent); }' total=${total};
}
echo TAXES:
$register ^expenses and \( tax and not bottle \) | percnt
echo RENT, UTILITIES, AND INSURANCE:
$register ^expenses and \( rent or utilities or insurance or 403b or 401k
\) | percnt
echo OTHER:
$register ^expenses and not \( \( tax and not bottle \) or rent or
utilities or insurance or 403b or 401k \) | percnt
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