[GNC] Command Line Args

[David H]

This is it, not sure what else you are looking for ???  This is pretty new
(gnucash-cli) and as far as I understand it limited so far to just these
functions ?

Cheers David H.


"C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli" --help
C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli [options] [datafile] -
GnuCash, accounting for personal and small business finance:

Common Options:
  -h [ --help ]           Show this help message
  -v [ --version ]        Show GnuCash version
  --debug                 Enable debugging mode: provide deep detail in the
                          logs.
                          This is equivalent to: --log "=info" --log
"qof=info"
                          --log "gnc=info"
  --extra                 Enable extra/development/debugging features.
  --log arg               Log level overrides, of the form
                          "modulename={debug,info,warn,crit,error}"
                          Examples: "--log qof=debug" or "--log
                          gnc.backend.file.sx=info"
                          This can be invoked multiple times.
  --logto arg             File to log into; defaults to
"/tmp/gnucash.trace";
                          can be "stderr" or "stdout".
  --gsettings-prefix arg  Set the prefix for gsettings schemas for gsettings
                          queries. This can be useful to have a different
                          settings tree while debugging.

Price Quotes Retrieval Options:
  -Q [ --quotes ] arg     Execute price quote related commands. Currently
only
                          one command is supported.

                            get: Fetch current quotes for all foreign
                                 currencies and stocks in the given GnuCash
                                 datafile.

  --namespace arg         Regular expression determining which namespace
                          commodities will be retrieved for

Report Generation Options:
  -R [ --report ] arg     Execute report related commands. The following
                          commands are supported.

                            list: Lists available reports.
                            show: Describe the options modified in the named
                                  report. A datafile may be specified to
                                  describe some saved options.
                            run: Run the named report in the given GnuCash
                                 datafile.

  --name arg              Name of the report to run

  --export-type arg       Specify export type

  --output-file arg       Output file for report

On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 at 08:33, Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:

> Thank you, in that case is there documentation on the command line
> switches?
>
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:06 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > On Apr 22, 2021, at 2:30 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > That is very VERY odd.  It works for me.  I wonder if this is a Windows
> > bug?
> >
> > Not odd at all, and not a bug in the sense that Microsoft did it on
> > purpose [1]. Windows executables have a couple of bytes in their
> preambles
> > that say what type they are. Console apps have stdin, stdout, and stderr
> > and so they require a shell window of some sort (CMD and Powershell being
> > the most common) and will open one for you if you launch them from
> Windows
> > File Explorer. The others redirect the basic FDs to NULL and so they
> don't
> > need a shell window. gnucash is a Windows program (no basic FDs) and
> > gnucash-cli is a Console program (has basic FDs).
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie11-iewindows_10/what-is-difference-between-console-application/f8bd3d4f-7c2c-4c86-a64b-41a046a38be4
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