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.Dd March 23, 2012
.Dt ledger 1
.Dt LEDGER 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ledger
.Nd Command-line, double-entry account reporting tool
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of double-entry accounting. It is only a reporting tool, which means it never
modifies your data files, but it does offers a large selection of reports, and
different ways to customize them to your liking.
.Pp
.Sh COMMANDS
Ledger accepts several top-level commands, each of which generates a different
kind of basic report. Most of them accept a
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Lists all accounts for postings matching the
.Ar report-query .
.El
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width balance
.It Nm balance Oo Ar report-query Oc
Produces a balance report showing totals for all matching accounts, and
aggregate totals for parents of those accounts. Options most commonly used
with this command are:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -compact -width "--collapse (-n)"
.It Fl \-basis Pq Fl B
Report in terms of cost basis, not amount or value. This is the only form of
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accounts and commodities involved in the report, plus the postings and the
transactions they are contained in. See the manual for more information.
.El
.Pp
.Sh OPTIONS
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width -indent
.It Fl \-abbrev-len Ar INT
Set the minimum length an account can be abbreviated to if it doesn't
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Shorthand for
.Fl \-period Ar "yearly" .
.El
.Pp
.Sh PRE-COMMANDS
Pre-commands are useful when you aren't sure how a command or option
will work. The difference between a pre-command and a regular command
is that pre-commands ignore the journal data file completely, nor is
the user's init file read.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width -indent
.It Nm args / query
Evaluate the given arguments and report how Ledger interprets it against
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.Nm xact
sub-command generates. This is a debugging command.
.El
.Pp
.Sh QUERIES
The syntax for reporting queries can get somewhat complex. It is a series of
query terms with an implicit OR operator between them. The following terms
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.Pp
.Dl ledger bal \e\\\&( assets or liab \e\\\&) and not food
.El
.Pp
.Sh EXPRESSIONS
.Bl -tag -width "partial_account"
.It Nm account
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.It Nm virtual
.It Nm xact
.El
.Pp
.Sh ENTRIES
.Pp
.Sh FORMATS
.Pp
.Sh DEBUG COMMANDS
In addition to the regular reporting commands, Ledger also accepts several
debug commands:
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and displays information about how it was parsed. See the section on
.Sx DRAFTS .
.El
.Pp
.Sh FILES
.TP 15
~/.ledgerrc
Your personal ledger initializations.
.Sh SEE ALSO