NAME

addtrans - interactively add transactions to a ledger file

SYNOPSIS

addtrans [options]

DESCRIPTION

addtrans is a graphical application for quickly adding new transactions to a ledger file.

A tutorial for using this program, with screenshots, is available at /usr/share/doc/ledgerhelpers/addtrans.html

The program must be supplied with locations of the ledger and price database files to work with. The location of each file is determined independently, using the following mechanisms, in this order. The first mechanism which yields a result, wins.

OPTIONS

-h,: --help Show help message and exit.
--file FILE: Specify path to ledger file to work with.
--price-db PRICEDB: Specify path to ledger price database to work with.
--debug: Turn on debugging output, may be useful for developers.

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables are recognized by this program:

LEDGER_FILE: Path to ledger file to work with.
LEDGER_PRICE_DB: Path to ledger price database to work with.

FILES

The config file for ledger(1), namely file .ledgerrc in user's home directory is scanned looking for the following options.

--file FILE: Path to ledger file to work with.
--price-db PRICEDB: Path to ledger price database to work with.