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except possibly hledger-ui and hledger-web, which can be nice to have at the start.
## Complementary scripts
## Related scripts
Here are some scripts which don't use hledger directly, but might be useful to hledger users.
(For more, see also: [plaintextaccounting.org > Software](https://plaintextaccounting.org#software)).
These scripts don't use hledger directly, but might be useful to hledger users.
(See also [plaintextaccounting.org](https://plaintextaccounting.org) for a longer list of PTA tools.)
### hledger-pricehist
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## hledger command line scripts
These scripts use hledger's command line interface.
They might also consume its text or CSV or JSON output.
They can be
small shell aliases or functions (typically defined in shell startup files like ~/.bashrc)
or individual script files written in shell or another language (typically kept in ~/bin/ or elsewhere in $PATH).
These scripts use hledger's command line interface, or process one of its output formats.
### bashrc
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### Justfile
<https://github.com/casey/just> is like [make](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)), but easier and more suitable for running commands.
It is a nice tool for organising financial reports and scripts!
More on [hledger and just](just.md).
<https://github.com/casey/just> is a nice tool for organising financial reports and scripts,
similar to `make`, but more robust for this use case. I can recommend it.
See also [hledger and just](just.md).
Here is a [Justfile](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/Justfile)
reimplementing the `ft` and `tt` scripts more simply: