chron job with GC

[Dennis Powless]

Thanks for the info.  I'll have to take a look at that.  I knew about the
print to file from GC, but was hoping to automate the entire thing.


Dennis

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:03 PM, <lists at johnrakestraw.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Nov 2011, Dennis Powless wrote:
> > Is there a way to click a button and have GC run a report, then print to
> > PDF and email via gmail to my wife?
>
> You might look into John Wiegley's Ledger program
> (https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger/wiki). He's now working on version
> 3.0; you'd want version 2.6.x, which is likely available via your distro's
> package manager system. Ledger 2.6.x can read Gnucash files, while version
> 3.0 can't (at least not yet).
>
> Ledger generates all sorts of different reports. With a combination of
> shell script and ledger, I'm doing exactly what you are trying to do
> (i.e., emailing regular budget reports to my wife via cron job).
>
> --
> John Rakestraw
>