gnucash-cli - Man Page

• Get quotes for currencies and stocks specified in a file and print them: gnucash-cli --quotes get path/to/file.gnucash
• Generate a financial report of a specific type, specified by --name: gnucash-cli --report run --name "Balance Sheet" path/to/file.gnucash

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gnucash-cli [options] [ accounts.gnucash ]

gnucash-cli enables certain intraction with a gnucash datafile directly from the command line.

It has two modes: quotes mode and report mode.

This mode has options to get online quotes for foreign currencies and stocks in the given data file. It supports the following command:

info

Shows Finance::Quote version and exposed quote sources.

get

Retrieves online quotes. Note this requires Finance::Quote to be properly configured for your system.

The get command takes the following options:

--namespace=REGEXP

Regular expression determining which namespace commodities will be retrieved.

dump

Fetches 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.

The dump command takes the option

-v

--verbose

Lists all of the parameters Finance::Quote returns for the symbol instead of only the ones that Gnucash requires.

This mode has options to work with reports in the given data file. It supports the following command:

run

Runs a report on the given data file.

The run command takes the following options:

--name=REPORT_NAME

Name of the report to run

--export-type=TYPE

Specify export type

--version

Show GnuCash version

--help

Show this help message

--debug

Enable debugging mode: increasing logging to provide deep detail.

--extra

Enable extra/development/debugging features.

--log

Log level overrides, of the form "log.ger.path={debug,info,warn,crit,error}" This option can be specified multiple times.

--logto

File to log into; defaults to "$TMPDIR/gnucash.trace"; use "stderr" or "stdout" to write to the terminal.

~/.gnucash/config.auto

Automatically generated per-user configuration file.  DO NOT EDIT MANUALLY!

GNC_DEBUG

Enable debugging output.  This allows you to turn on the debugging earlier in the startup process than you can with --debug.

GUILE_LOAD_PATH

An override for the GnuCash scheme load path. You shouldn't need to alter this.  For more information see the README file.

GNC_MODULE_PATH

An override for the GnuCash scheme load path for Gnucash modules. You shouldn't need to alter this.  For more information see the README file.

Please report any bugs using the bug reporting form on the GnuCash web site.

GnuCash has extensive on-line help available from the "help" menu.

Additional information and the latest version is available at the web site: https://www.gnucash.org

Robert Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net> wrote this manpage.  

GnuCash was written by Robin Clark, Linas Vepstas, and a cast of thousands.