Hi Norman, Norman Walsh <[email protected]> writes:
> 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 $99.55!? The short answer is that --average doesn't work with the balance command; it only works with the register command. Do you get more sensible results with a command like this? ledger -p "this year" --monthly --average reg 'expenses:Groceries$' (Another gotcha: --average also seems to interact badly with subaccounts, which is why I have the '$' in there.) FWIW, I think hledger is able to do averages with the balance command, and I find its output much more intuitive and useful, so you could try that. -- Best, Richard -- --- 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.
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