doc: advice on complex quoting use-cases (closes #1609)
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				| @ -35,6 +35,22 @@ https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/examples/roi-unrealised.ledg | ||||
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| - Cookbook -> [Return on Investment](return-on-investment.html) | ||||
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| ### Spaces and special characters in `--inv` and `--pnl` | ||||
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| Note that `--inv` and `--pnl`'s argument is a query, and queries could have several space-separated terms (see [QUERIES](https://hledger.org/hledger.html#queries)). | ||||
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| To indicate that all search terms form single command-line argument, you will need to put them in quotes (see [Special characters](https://hledger.org/hledger.html#special-characters)): | ||||
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| ```shell | ||||
| $ hledger roi --inv 'term1 term2 term3 ...' | ||||
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| If any query terms contain spaces themselves, you will need an extra level of nested quoting, eg: | ||||
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| ```shell | ||||
| $ hledger roi --inv="'Assets:Test 1'" --pnl="'Equity:Unrealized Profit and Loss'" | ||||
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| ### Semantics of `--inv` and `--pnl` | ||||
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| Query supplied to `--inv` has to match all transactions that are | ||||
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| $ hledger register credit\ card | ||||
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| Windows users should keep in mind that `cmd` treats single quote as a | ||||
| regular character, so you should be using double quotes exclusively. | ||||
| PowerShell treats both single and double quotes as quotes. | ||||
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| ### Double escaping (regular expression metacharacters) | ||||
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| Characters significant in [regular expressions] | ||||
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