How to assign transaction to accounts automatically.

[Hans Deragon]

Greetings,

New user here.  I downloaded 500 transactions from my credit card bank
site, all assigned to 'Imbalanced-CAD'.  Now, how can I set rules to
automatically assign transactions to a specific account?  For instance,
any transaction with "^ESSO.*" or "^SHELL.*" must be reassigned to
Car:Gasoline.  I fail to find that information on the web, except that
when importing, GnuCash trains itself and does that automatically at the
next import.

But what about my 500 transactions that are already imported?  What
about if one wants to reassign transactions to another account, after a
month of careful thinking?  Does a user have to go through all
transactions manually?

As a workaround, is it possible to convert the GnuCash file into Unicode
and use scripting languages to manipulate the transactions, then convert
it back to its binary format?

Using GnuCash 2.6.12 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Best regards,
Hans Deragon

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