Hledger – Double-entry accounting from the Unix tools perspective (2012)

[edward]

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hledger/

[howeyc]

The nicest thing about Hledger and the original[1] is the extremely simple file format. It allows you to write your own pretty easily (especially if you stick to the very simple format of a bunch of transactions). I wrote one for my use [2].

[1] http://ledger-cli.org/ [2] https://github.com/howeyc/ledger

[A_COMPUTER → howeyc]

if you have used both, can you go over why someone might want to choose one over the other? I suppose since they share the same file format, it shouldn't be that hard to switch between them.

[simonmic → A_COMPUTER]

hledger (http://hledger.org) author here. Here's what I wrote about this a few years back: http://hledger.org/faq.html#hledger-and-ledger . One user said "hledger is an easier-to-use implementation of the ledger accounting system".

The basic file format is the same, but there are differences - with a little care you can keep a file that works with both. Abandon and beancount's file formats are more different.

I'm happy to answer questions here or on #hledger. I've been using and growing hledger steadily since 2007; I just released 0.24 and we are thinking about a 1.0 one of these months.

[AdamGibbins → A_COMPUTER]

There's also beancount and abandon, both use similar/the same data format.

[aquilax]

I love ledger. It inspired me to create a life/fitness command line tracking tool using the same idea https://github.com/Hranoprovod/hranoprovod-cli

[onedognight]

Contrary to what is said in this article, the GnuCash XML file can be checked into git, the diffs are quite readable and there are no additional files to track.

[campesino]

I'm loving the keyboard shortcuts in hledger-web-0.24. Thank you Simon Michael