cmd line: import of transactions and invoice data

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Tue Dec 31 10:40:26 EST 2013


On Tuesday 31 December 2013 10:34:41 Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, December 31, 2013 9:59 am, Jannick wrote:
> > I am currently looking into using gnucash on a command line basis.
> > Are there
> > - if any - command line instructions to import (1) transactions and
> > (2) invoice data (example file shipped with the latest 29.12.2013
> > version).
> > 
> > Many thanks and have a great 2014!
> > J.
> 
> Sorry, no.  GnuCash is a GUI tool.  There is no command line
> interface.
> 
> -derek

to add to this, if your gnucash version has been compiled with python support, you could write 
python scripts to do this for you on the command line. There is unfortunately not much 
documentation on this feature. The example scripts that come with the python bindings may 
be a good start.

Geert


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