4.6 Keeping it consistent

[Oliver Hardy]

Following the instructions in section 4.6 (https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Keeping-it-Consistent), I've generated an ~/Accounts.dat file.

Two questions:

1) How do I get ledger to read that file? I assume there is an entry one enters in ~/.ledgerrc but I find nothing in the man pages.

2) Where does one find that information?

Thank you.

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Oliver Hardy <ohar...@gmail.com> [2020-07-20 20:51]:

> I've generated an ~/Accounts.dat file.
>
> Two questions:
> 1) How do I get ledger to read that file? I assume there is an entry one
> enters in ~/.ledgerrc but I find nothing in the man pages.

You can use -f on the command line to specify a file, so in your case
you'd do:
ledger -f ~/Accounts.dat ...

You can also set the LEDGER_FILE environment variable.

> 2) Where does one find that information?

https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Basic-options

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

[Oliver Hardy]

Thank you for that.

[Jasel17212]

One option is to just include it in your ledger file.

I set mine up like this:

include accounts.dat

include budget.dat

include_register_2018.dat

include register_2019.dat

include register_2020.dat

James L.