hledger/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Payees.md

payees
List the unique payee/payer names that appear in transactions.

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This command lists the unique payee/payer names that appear in transactions, in alphabetic order. You can add a query to select a subset of transactions. The payee/payer is the part of the transaction description before a | character (or if there is no |, the whole description).

Example:

$ hledger payees
Store Name
Gas Station
Person A