I am trying to use the ledger 3.1 `balance` command to produce output
for another script. I am using `--balance-format
"%A=%(display_total)\n"` for this purpose. Unfortunately, I have
found that though I have declared all accounts with the `account`
command, it is impossible to get values for any accounts that have
not had transactions during the period selected, including parent
accounts with non-zero balances.
For example, consider the following journal.
~~~
account Assets
account Expenses
account Expenses:Clothing
account Expenses:Food
account Income
2017-03-15 Employer
Income $-100
Assets $100
2017-03-15 Restaurant
Assets $-20
Expenses:Food $20
~~~
The balance of the Expenses (parent) account is $20. The balance of
the Expenses:Clothing account is 0. But the balance command shows
neither.
~~~
$ ledger --no-total --balance-format "%A=%(display_total)\n" balance
Assets=$80
Expenses:Food=$20
Income=$-100
~~~
I would like to get balances of all accounts, including empty/zero
accounts (Expenses:Clothing) and parent accounts (Expenses) that do
not have transactions of their own.
I can make ledger provide values for parent accounts if I add a dummy
automated transaction like this with a line for every account.
~~~
= expr true
Assets 0
Expenses 0
Expenses:Clothing 0
Expenses:Food 0
Income 0
~~~
Now I at least get the parent accounts (Expenses), but still not
empty/zero accounts (Expenses:Clothing).
~~~
$ ledger --no-total --balance-format "%A=%(display_total)\n" balance
Assets=$80
Expenses=$20
Expenses:Food=$20
Income=$-100
~~~
Note that this is not resolved by simply adding more transactions,
because a selected `--period` for a report may or may not contain
transactions that touch a specific account.
Am I missing something?
Thanks for your help!
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