need help with stock investment reporting

[Wm]

Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:42:02 
<07692CCB-3F18-435B-9BEB-0A111F03B6BC at editide.us>  John Morris 
<johnjeff at editide.us>

>Hi Wm,
>  I am also new to GnuCash, so I have not yet worked out all the 
>details. Also, I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to switching from 
>Quicken to GnuCash, so I expect it to take a while yet. So far, I 
>figured out how to munge the .qif from Quicken so GnuCash did not choke 
>on it and all the data went where I wanted it to go. Then I figured out 
>this bit about what to do with Quicken's classes and that I could run a 
>grep search and then report on the search results. I trust (hope) that 
>I will find a report that meets my needs once I get around to looking 
>into it. If I had to, I could export the information from the search to 
>a spreadsheet, but I would like to avoid that. It seems to me that my 
>financial software should be powerful enough to generate the reports I 
>need on a regular basis.

Where are you using grep?  Are you grepping the raw XML or using REs as 
in the Trial Balance family of reports?

-- 
Wm...