get a number/amount only from `ledger balance ...`

[Sim Tov]

Hello,

I would like to use the output of `ledger balance ...` in a bash script. I want to get a number/amount only, without all the strings around it... is there a command line option to get amount only (even without commodity/currency sign)?

Thank you!

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Sim Tov <smn...@gmail.com> [2022-02-06 12:43]:

This gets you the amount (with the commodity):

ledger bal assets:cash --balance-format "%(amount)"

I'm not sure if you can get just the number, but you can just run this
command through sed or perl to remove the commodity.

--
Martin Michlmayr
https://www.cyrius.com/

[Alan]

You can say "%(clear_commodity(amount))"