Command line reports?

[Jon Lapham]

Tony Bloomfield wrote:
> I'd like to develop a simple application (preferably as a shell script, though
> Perl or QT would be other possibilities) which can pick up the current (or at
> least fairly recent) balance on a gnucash account.

I don't think there is any way to do this currently.

(Re)adding the Perl bindings via SWIG is on my TODO list, but will not 
be available until the 1.8.6 at the earliest (assuming I can do it).

http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2003-July/009589.html

> On browsing the site, I see a mention of the possibility to run reports from 
> the command line, though it suggests that this is now broken. Is this so? (I 
> don't seem to be able to track down much documentation on command line 
> options within gnucash).

I don't think this is working.. there was a thread just a little while 
ago about CL reports... but I can't find it now.

> Otherwise, I could run the Account Summary report manually (from within the 
> GUI), but then the only possibility seems to be to save it as an HTML file, 
> which makes programmatic analysis less than trivial. A straight text file 
> would be much preferable. Any ideas?
> (Hoping I'm not missing something obvious here!)

Ah, yes, interacting with external applications.  Export to tab 
delimited files, OpenOffice spreadsheets, etc, etc.  All highly 
requested features, and none supported as of yet.  I think this 
questions is yet another FAQ candidate...

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