I just want to share this quick tip because I have been using ledger for several years and used to reconcile my accounts by keeping open a "watch ledger -f file bal Acct:checking" terminal window. My new method, which makes things much easier and quicker, is to keep at least 3 terminal windows open on my desktop: one to edit the data file using your editor of choice, one running the command: watch " ledger -f im.dat -C reg Acct:checking | tail -n16 ", and one running the command: watch " ledger -f im.dat -U reg Acct:checking | tail -n16 ". The double quotes above are necessary to allow the "watch" command to apply to the "tail" pipe (no pun intended). This allows me to see all of my recent reconciled transactions and usually all of my unreconciled transactions for any particular account. You can substitute your account of interest for Acct:checking obviously. You are shown a running balance for the account as well. Please note that I am using version 2.6. I know I am overdue to upgrade.
On Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 4:41:03 PM UTC-4, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > (Apologies if this is a repeat -- I posted a day or two ago and haven't > seen it shown up. If this doesn't speak well for my ability to manage using > ledger, then, more apologies.) > > I just found ledger and I love it already. I've started dual entering > transactions with my old software, and my early experimentation shows it > will work great for me. > > While I'm looking forward to writing my own bash and python scripts for > data entry and manipulation, I was wondering what might be out there > already for reconciliation. I want to get something working sooner so I can > let go of the old software. > > Just something simple to balance my accounts against my statements -- > preferably marking things pending and then cleared. > > I've seen where you can use GnuCash and Emacs for things, but I don't want > to use those. > > Is there anything else I might try? > > Thank you, > > Scott > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
