export general ledger

[Jeff Abrahamson]

On 18/12/17 03:26, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
> On 17/12/2017 19:31, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
>> I'd like to export the general ledger to a csv file.  When I use File ->
>> Export, however, I'm offered a choice of exporting income, expenses,
>> assets, or liabilities.  But I'd like to have all transactions in the
>> csv file.
>>
>> I think I see how to do this using python (the example script
>> account_analysis.py in the examples is instructive).  But this seems so
>> basic I suspect I'm missing something.
>>
>> Many thanks for any pointers.
> May be easier to do a transaction report or similar and copy and paste
> that into a spreadsheet.
>
> Alternatively there are a number of scripts that can take gnc files of
> some flavour and produce ledger-cli / beancount compatible files which
> are generally mores useful than csv files for accounting data anyway.

Ah, ledger-cli and beancount are neat, thanks for the pointer.

This sort of export is something I want to be able to do frequently. 
I'll have a look around for scripts to automate it.

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