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hledger is a command-line accounting tool for both power users and folks new to accounting.
This is the command-line interface (CLI) for the hledger accounting tool.
Here we also describe hledger's concepts and file formats.
This manual is for hledger _version_.
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m4_dnl Include the standard description:
_hledgerdescription_
This is hledgers command-line interface (there are also terminal and web
interfaces). Its basic function is to read a plain text file describing
The basic function of the hledger CLI is to read a plain text file describing
financial transactions (in accounting terms, a general journal) and
print useful reports on standard output, or export them as CSV. hledger
can also read some other file formats such as CSV files, translating