Common Ledger CLI Commands

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Common Ledger CLI Commands

• Income vs expenses this month?

  $ ledger balance income expenses --period "this month"

• What did my budget look like at a certain date?

  $ ledger balance budget --end 2018-01-02

  This is how it looked at the end of the day on Jan 1, 2018.

• How much is in the checking account right now?

  $ ledger balance checking

• What is our net worth?

  $ ledger balance ^assets ^liabilities --real

• How much money have we made?

  $ ledger balance income

• How much money have we made from our salaries?

  $ ledger balance income:salary

• How much do we spend each month on x?

  $ ledger register -M expenses:groceries:food

• Group transactions by payee

  $ ledger register --by-payee

• Only show uncleared transactions

  $ ledger register --uncleared

• Do I have enough budgeted to pay off my credit cards?

  $ ledger balance creditcard

  It should be $0.00. If it's not $0.00, run this with different dates to find the problem:

  $ ledger balance creditcard --end 2018-02-01

• Import

  Change Chase checking from:

  Details,Posting Date,Description,Amount,Type,Balance,Check or Slip #
  

  to:

  ,Date,Payee,Amount,,,Code
  

  Change Chase Credit Card from:

  Type,Trans Date,Post Date,Description,Amount
  

  to:

  ,Date,Posted,Payee,Amount
  

  $ ledger convert ~/Downloads/checking.CSV --input-date-format "%m/%d/%Y" --invert --account Assets:Checking --rich-data -f budget.ledger --auto-match --pager less

• Expenses each month (sorted)

  $ ledger -M --period-sort "(amount)" reg ^expenses

  This will show all expenses, grouped by month and sorted by the amount.

• How much do we spend on credit cards each month?

  $ ledger -M -r --display 'account=~/creditcard/' reg ^expenses