[GNC] Ledger-CLI

[Geoff]

Hi Art

 > 1.  Where can a curious user find a Ledger 2.x binary, Windows or
 > Linux (Ubuntu/Mint)?
 >
Google is your friend:

https://github.com/AlexanderAA/ledger_binaries_windows

 > 2.  Does anyone who has used Ledger, with or without Gnucash files,
 > have anything to say about Ledger and whether they think it's worth
 > looking into.
 >
I haven't used it.

Good luck!

Geoff
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On 4/04/2024 6:03 am, Art Chimes wrote:
> Just today I first read about ledger-cli, a program that is apparently
> a full-featured, command-line based, double-entry system that has the
> added ability to read gnucash data files to create text-only reports,
> among other tricks.
> 
> I was looking for an alternative to gnucash's ability to export data
> in csv format. I don't know that ledger would be a better choice for
> my occasional reports, in addition to those gnucash can generate
> natively, but it seemed worth investigating on a rainy day like today.
> 
> Unfortunately,  the current ledger-cli version no longer has the
> ability to read gnucash data files, and I could not find a usable
> binary for ledger v. 2.x, the last to support gnucash.
> 
> (I think the source code is posted somewhere, but I've never built a
> binary from source and I'm kinda squeamish about doing so.)
> 
> This leaves me with the following questions:
> 
> 1.  Where can a curious user find a Ledger 2.x binary, Windows or
> Linux (Ubuntu/Mint)?
> 
> 2.  Does anyone who has used Ledger, with or without Gnucash files,
> have anything to say about Ledger and whether they think it's worth
> looking into.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Art
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