Hi,
I've been happily using ledger-cli for years, but I'm sure I hardly scratch
the surface of what it can do. Every now and then, I get an idea to see if
I can learn to use more of it. Today's thought was "would having a budget
be useful?"
So I go digging through the docs and I come to this example of how to get
the current monthly average expenses:
$ ledger -p "this year" --monthly --average balance ^expenses
But the numbers don't make any sense. My average rent is apparently $99.55!?
After poking around a bit, I decide to make a small test document so that I
can understand what's going on:
; -*- ledger -*-
Y2017
12/02 Acme Apartments
Expenses:Rent $1000.00
Assets:Checking
Y2018
01/02 Acme Apartments
Expenses:Rent $1000.00
Assets:Checking
02/02 Acme Apartments
Expenses:Rent $1000.00
Assets:Checking
03/02 Acme Apartments
Expenses:Rent $1000.00
Assets:Checking
04/02 Acme Apartments
Expenses:Rent $1000.00
Assets:Checking
05/02 Acme Apartments
Expenses:Rent $1000.00
Assets:Checking
06/02 Acme Apartments
Expenses:Rent $1000.00
Assets:Checking
But I'm none the wiser.
$ ledger -f FakeLedger --monthly --average balance ^expenses
$500.00 Expenses:Rent
That makes no sense. And adding -p "this year" only makes it worse:
$ ledger -f FakeLedger -p "this year" --monthly --average balance
^expenses
$125.00 Expenses:Rent
I've tried all sorts of things, some of which make the numbers change. But
clearly I am missing something fundamental.
Help?
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