See this similar discussion:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ledger-cli/rrSewPJ_qn8/QjblyrC75q8J

Source code from the original thread is here:
https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/ebf90c52ea37f29b3ed460a6af748cb5b792b587/src/python/beancount/plugins/tag_pending.py?at=unicode

You could riff on this code and build something that works for you,
possibly using Ledger's Python API even. Personally I would extent it with
a heuristic that attempts to match up the transactions if not explicitly
linked together in the input file.



On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:54 PM, David Sklar <[email protected]> wrote:

> A report wrangling question: how to concisely display my list of bills to
> pay?
>
> When I receive a bill on May 1 due May 27 I create a transaction such as
> this:
>
> 2015/05/01=2015/05/27 The Telephone Company
>    Liabilities:Bills:The Telephone Company
>    Expenses:Communication    $34.21
>
> Then when I pay the bill from my checking account I create a transaction
> such as this:
>
> 2015/05/10  The Telephone Company
>    Liabilities:Bills:The Telephone Company    $34.21
>    Assets:Checking
>
> This works swell and I use the following little bash script to display
> upcoming bills I need to pay:
>
> for bill in $(ledger bal --flat --no-total Liabilities:Bills | awk '{print
> $2}')
> do
>     ledger reg --aux-date $bill
> done
>
> It finds each account under Liabilities:Bills with a balance, then prints
> the register for those accounts, telling me the amount due and when it's
> due (the aux date).
>
> My problem is that I would like to restrict the final output to only the
> outstanding amounts (whatever their date), excluding paid bills. As it is
> now, I get things like this:
>
> 15-May-06 PhoneCo               Liabilit:Bills:PhoneCo       $28.91
> $28.91
> 15-May-11 PhoneCo               Liabilit:Bills:PhoneCo
> $-28.91            0
> 15-Jun-10 PhoneCo               Liabilit:Bills:PhoneCo      $-28.63
> $-28.63
>
> Showing my previous month's bill being entered and paid, and then this
> month's bill outstanding.
>
> I could just display the latest-date transaction for each account, which
> would mostly work, but then i would lose information if there were two
> bills due at a time, or an old one hadn't been paid for some reason.
>
> Any thoughts on a good way to accomplish this? Have something that goes
> through and pairs up old transactions (by payee/acct and amount) and
> applies some "paid bill" tag to them so the final report excludes such
> transactions? Some kind of filter on the final report that can find the
> most recent date the balance was 0 and exclude everything before that?
> Something else?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
>
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