Re: adding commodity to a file without commodity

[dim]

On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 8:12:50 PM UTC+2, John Wiegley wrote:
>
> > Ben Finney  writes: 
>
> > I think the correct, and simplest, way to do this is to modify the 
> ledger 
> > file directly to have the commodity explicit in each amount. 
>
> Indeed. "Uncommoditized" amounts actually have a separate meaning inside 
> Ledger, which may come to bite you in future, so tacking on the commodity 
> later for display is definitely not how it was designed to work. 
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I agree, but we have a file with about 2000 entries without commodities and 
the question is if it is possible to run a ledger command with some option 
and print the exact same file but this time with commodity € added to each 
amount. Something like: ledger print --commodityoption '€' > newfile.dat 
After that we would use the newfile.dat as ledger file, with all amounts in 
€ and get rid of the original file.



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Re: adding commodity to a file without commodity

[John Wiegley]

> Ben Finney  writes:

> I think the correct, and simplest, way to do this is to modify the ledger
> file directly to have the commodity explicit in each amount.

Indeed. "Uncommoditized" amounts actually have a separate meaning inside
Ledger, which may come to bite you in future, so tacking on the commodity
later for display is definitely not how it was designed to work.

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Re: adding commodity to a file without commodity

[Ben Finney]

dim  writes:

> I have a file without commodity specification
>
> 2016/01/03  Gas station
>  Expenses:Fuel 45.80
>  Assets:Bank Account 
>
> 2016/01/03  Restaurant
>  Expenses:Lunch 12.80
>  Assets:Bank Account 
>
> ...
>
> and I want to add the euro sign in front of 

I think the correct, and simplest, way to do this is to modify the
ledger file directly to have the commodity explicit in each amount.

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adding commodity to a file without commodity

[dim]

Hello everybody, 

I have a file without commodity specification

2016/01/03  Gas station
 Expenses:Fuel 45.80
 Assets:Bank Account 

2016/01/03  Restaurant
 Expenses:Lunch 12.80
 Assets:Bank Account 

...

and I want to add the euro sign in front of 

2016/01/03  Gas station
 Expenses:Fuel€ 45.80
 Assets:Bank Account 

2016/01/03  Restaurant
 Expenses:Lunch€ 12.80
 Assets:Bank Account 

Is there an easy way to do this with ledger print? There is no matching 
account (Expenses: can be something else too). I tried automated 
transactions with (€ 1 * amount) but no luck. 

Best regards,
Dimitri


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