> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:37:30 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Oliver Hardy <[email protected]>
>
> If someone can point me to where in the man pages it describes how to
> create a journal I would be grateful. Also how does one create accounts,
> add entries
> etc.
Just create a text file with your favourite text editor -- Emacs,
Notepad, Sublime, whatever (make sure it's not a word processor or
rich text or anything) -- and start writing transactions saying how
much money moved into or out of accounts. For example, you can copy &
paste the following into a file called `ledger.dat':
2020-01-01 Opening Balances
Assets:Bank 100.00 EUR
Assets:Cash 40.00 EUR
Assets:Reimbursements:Friend 32.00 EUR
Equity:Opening Balances
2020-01-03 Dinner
Expenses:Food 27.00 EUR
Assets:Cash
Then run `ledger -f ledger.dat balance', and it will show you how much
is in each account after all the transactions. To add entries, simply
add to the end of the ledger.dat text file.
There's no need to take a separate step to create accounts -- ledger
will just take the account names you say in the transactions (but you
can declare them up front with, e.g., `account Assets:Bank', and then
use the `--pedantic' or `--strict' options to check for typos).
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