Thank you for your quick reply; and I apologize for asking nearly the same question I previously asked <https://groups.google.com/g/ledger-cli/c/s6hKviGYvqA/m/2zZ7iFvvG1gJ> (more than 10 years ago!). (That's why I quickly tried to remove my OP from yesterday.)
For my purposes here, "-n" works well enough. And, from Martin's response, I agree that #1901 looks like an even better soluion in general. So I'm all set for now. But just so as I'm not leaving you hanging, here's a simple example: 2022/9/1 Safeway Expenses:Food:Groceries $10.00 Assets:Cash 2022/9/15 KFC Expenses:Food:Chicken $5.00 Assets:Cash 2022/9/21 Another Expenses:Food $1.23 Assets:Cash The sum that I want for the monthly total is $16.23. But if I type `ledger -M --depth 2 reg expenses.food` I get $1.23. On Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 5:39:34 PM UTC-8 jwie...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>>> "A" == Alan <sf.f...@gmail.com> writes: > > A> I have some of my Expense accounts organized hierarchically. For > example, > A> rather than simply "Expenses:Food" I have a few accounts, such as: > > A> Expenses:Food:Groceries > A> Expenses:Food:Chicken > A> Expenses:Food: ... (a few others) > > A> But now I would like to get a weekly or monthly subtotal (using `-W` or > A> `-M`), summed across all Food categories. If I just query `reg > A> Expenses:Food` then of course as a regular expression that matches all > of > A> the sub-categories individually. If I add `--depth 2` then it ignores > all > A> the subcategories, reporting only the cases where the ledger has just > A> "Expenses:Food" exactly. > > Actually, `--depth 2` should be exactly what you need, according to the > --help > description: > > Limit the depth of displayed accounts in balance and register reports. Any > accounts of greater depth are folded into their parent at the specified > level. For example with --depth 2 the account > Expenses:Entertainment:Dining would be folded into Expenses:Entertainment > for display. Importantly, this is a display predicate, which means it only > affects display, not the total calculations. > > I'm rather surprised if it is truncating the totals as you describe. Can > you > reproduce the issue in a small test case? > > John > -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/968bcdfe-d295-4e08-9ab4-b5cdb1c23d35n%40googlegroups.com.