Same request at different moments in time

2014-11-26 Thread Sebastien Vauban
hello, In order to display (for example) the cash account every day of the month, or the income every month of the year, is there a shortcut to do so directly from Ledger, or do we have to use a shell script such as: printf "Month \tIncome\n" for year in {2012..2013}; do for mont

Re: Same request at different moments in time

2014-11-26 Thread Craig Earls
You may be able to do this throught the Python interface, but there is no facility for doing that from the command line. On Wednesday, November 26, 2014, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > hello, > > In order to display (for example) the cash account every day of the > month, or the income every month of

Re: Same request at different moments in time

2014-11-26 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Craig Earls wrote: > On Wednesday, November 26, 2014, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > >> hello, >> >> In order to display (for example) the cash account every day of the >> month, or the income every month of the year, is there a shortcut to do >> so directly from Ledger, or do we have to use a shell scr

Re: Same request at different moments in time

2014-11-26 Thread Craig Earls
I love ledger, but sometimes I think it encourages insanity! On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > Craig Earls wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 26, 2014, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > > > >> hello, > >> > >> In order to display (for example) the cash account every day of the >

Re: Same request at different moments in time

2014-11-26 Thread Douglas Philips
Actually, this makes a lot of sense. As Tufte says: "To get more clarity, add detail." (*) If you only look at cash balances weekly or monthly, you'll miss a lot. Visualization is key. On 11/26/14 6:04 PM, Craig Earls wrote: > I love ledger, but sometimes I think it encourages insanity! > > On We

Re: Same request at different moments in time

2014-11-29 Thread John Wiegley
> Sebastien Vauban writes: > In order to display (for example) the cash account every day of the > month, or the income every month of the year, is there a shortcut to do > so directly from Ledger, or do we have to use a shell script such as: Won't "ledger --monthly reg" also give you the in

Re: Same request at different moments in time

2014-12-01 Thread Simon Michael
On 11/26/14 12:45 PM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: In order to display (for example) the cash account every day of the month, or the income every month of the year, is there a shortcut to do so directly from Ledger, or do we have to use a shell script such as: printf "Month \tIncome\n" for

Re: Same request at different moments in time

2014-12-01 Thread thierry
Hi Sebastien, The output of your script, can be very closely reproduced using command: ledger --total-data --begin=2012 --monthly reg Income This can be shortened as: ledger -J -b 2012 -M reg Income FWIW, you could also "display" the result with the 'report' script that can be found in 'contr