[GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

john jralls at ceridwen.us
Wed Apr 5 23:04:02 EDT 2023


The namespace parameter is a regular expression, so .* will get the quotes from all of your namespaces.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 5, 2023, at 3:46 PM, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What default namespace, look in YOUR security editor - as far as
> I know it's whatever you set up.  I have a vague recollection that it
> doesn't really care and will be happy with just a single character
> i.e. --namespace=x
> but don't quote me on that.
> 
> By the way your original email could do with some halfway decent formatting
> - see what the mailing list received at
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106230.html you
> might like to tweak that to make it readable in future.
> 
> Cheers David H.
> 
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 07:46, David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> I saw that later.  What's the default namespace?
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David H <hellvee at gmail.com>
>> To: David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Sent: Wed, Apr 5, 2023 3:45 pm
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed
>> 
>> And you'll see there's a whole other thread on this -
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106181.html.
>> Bug report at https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798815
>> 
>> If you include a namespace parameter for now it will work.
>> 
>> Cheers David H.
>> 
>> On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 at 23:00, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user <
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I can still only update quotes with the interactive button, the flatpak
>> run gnucash command that ran in 4.* is still broken:
>> dgp at dgp-p6803w:~$ flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash
>> --quotes get /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashMissing data file
>> parameter
>> 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.  --paths                Show paths  --logto arg
>> File to log into; defaults to "/tmp/gnucash.trace";
>> can be "stderr" or "stdout".
>> Price Quotes Retrieval Options:  -Q [ --quotes ] arg    Execute price
>> quote related commands. The following                          commands are
>> supported.                                                    info: Show
>> Finance::Quote version and exposed quote
>> sources.                            get: Fetch current quotes for all
>> foreign                                  currencies and stocks in the given
>> GnuCash                                  datafile.
>> dump: Fetch current quotes for specified currencies
>>           or stocks from a specified namespace and print
>>               the results to the console.
>> This must be followed with a source and one or
>>     more symbols, unless the source is "currency"
>>         in which case it must be followed with two or
>>             more symbols, the first of which is the
>>           currency in which exchange rates for the rest
>>               will be quoted.                           --namespace arg
>>    Regular expression determining which namespace
>> commodities will be retrieved for when using the get
>>   command  -V [ --verbose ]       When using the dump command list all of
>> the parameters                         Finance::Quote returns for the
>> symbol instead of the                          ones that Gnucash requires.
>> 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
>> dgp at dgp-p6803w:~$ ls -l
>> /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash-rw-rw-r-- 2 dgp dgp 2899938 Apr
>> 4 17:55 /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashdgp at dgp-p6803w:~$
>> 
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