Copying many transactions

Mike or Penny Novack stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com
Mon Jul 24 19:40:40 EDT 2017


On 7/24/2017 12:50 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> azalea4va <common17 at azalea.name> writes:
>> This is essentially what I resorted to.  Since gnucash does not support
>> export to anything but a CSV file, I wrote a shell script to extract
>> information from the gnucash xml file and output to a GIF file.  As a shell
>> script, it was slow as molasses running on a file with 500K transactions,
>> but it got the job done.
Maybe a stupid question on my part (but I used to do a lot of data 
conversion)

If you had a way to export the data to a CVS file, wouldn't it have been 
as easy or easier to have written the shell script to convert from that 
to a GIF file? Might have run faster.

Michael D Novack


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