Quick tutorial on OS file name extensions (suffixes) and file type: While '.gz' tells your OS it needs to go to gunzip to be uncompressed into a file without the '.gz', gunzip does not care about the name. To bypass the OS extension association, you can force the input and output file names using command line I/O redirection: gunzip < input_file > output_file. Since gunzip reads from standard input file descriptor 0 by default, and write to standard output file descriptor 1 by default, it will gladly uncompress your gnucash data into an editable xml text file. Of course, it has to like the taste of the file it reads! :D You can even name the output_file as some_base_name.txt so you text editor will gladly open and write it.
As to editing XML, as long as you only modify the strings inside <entity_tag ...>...</entity_tag> , and not any punctuation, like the fragment below where it says '<cmdty:quote_source>alphavantage</cmdty:quote_source>' you could change 'alphavantage' to another source, if you know the *exact* string for that source. Change one the slow way to see what the magic word is! The second example is a description <trn:description>IRC</trn:description> where you can change 'IRC' to whatever pleases you, but try not to stick anything funny or huge in there! <gnc:commodity version="2.0.0"> <cmdty:space>AMEX</cmdty:space> <cmdty:id>DIA</cmdty:id> <cmdty:name>DIA</cmdty:name> <cmdty:fraction>1000</cmdty:fraction> <cmdty:get_quotes/> <cmdty:quote_source>alphavantage</cmdty:quote_source> <cmdty:quote_tz/> <cmdty:slots> <slot> <slot:key>user_symbol</slot:key> <slot:value type="string">DIA</slot:value> </slot> </cmdty:slots></gnc:commodity> . . . <gnc:transaction version="2.0.0"> <trn:id type="guid">20d545fb18b34e7ca920c11335705ac4</trn:id> <trn:currency> <cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space> <cmdty:id>USD</cmdty:id> </trn:currency> <trn:date-posted> <ts:date>2023-05-22 10:59:00 +0000</ts:date> </trn:date-posted> <trn:date-entered> <ts:date>2023-05-26 14:36:25 +0000</ts:date> </trn:date-entered> <trn:description>IRC</trn:description> _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
