Bash script for checking unmatched transfers in a beancount journal (https://redd.it/vlkaxp)

check-imbalanced-transfers.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -eu

JOURNAL="myjournal.beancount" # Replace with your beancount file

RESULT="$(bean-query "${JOURNAL}" \
'SELECT account, sum(position)
WHERE account = "Assets:Transfers";')"
TRANSFERS_LINE="$(echo "${RESULT}" | grep "^Assets:Transfers")"
if echo "${TRANSFERS_LINE}" | grep --quiet "^Assets:Transfers *$"; then
  echo "No outstanding transfers for ${JOURNAL}"
else
  echo "ERROR: Outstanding transfers for ${JOURNAL}"
  echo "${TRANSFERS_LINE}"
  exit 1
fi