any way for "hledger close" to add a tag to the entry?

[Will Robinson]

I want to do something similar to the "clopen" tagging mentioned in the help, but within a script where I'm automating the run of "hledger close" to generate closing balances, retain earnings, etc.

Can "hledger close" add a tag to its output ledger entry?

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Will Robinson (willro...@gmail.com)

[Simon Michael]

> On Jan 2, 2024, at 09:00, Will Robinson <willro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to do something similar to the "clopen" tagging mentioned in the help, but within a script where I'm automating the run of "hledger close" to generate closing balances, retain earnings, etc.
>
> Can "hledger close" add a tag to its output ledger entry?
>

Not really. You could add a posting with a tag using auto posting rules, but simpler to add it outside of hledger with awk maybe.

[the.so...@gmail.com]

You could abuse the `--close-desc` option with an argument that includes the tag.

E.g.:

$ hledger close --retain '^Income' --close-acct="Equity:Retained:Income:FY22-23" --close-desc="FY2022-23 Closing Balances  ; tag:clopen" --explicit date:2022-04..2023-04 >> /tmp/fy2022-23.journal

~ Pranesh

[Simon Michael]

Ah yes! I should have thought of that.

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