hledger by example

A small but growing book introducing (some of) hledger, one step at a time.

You can use the sidebar links, the left and right arrow buttons on this page, or the left and right arrow keys, to step through the pages. Eg press the right arrow key now to step to the next page.

• Get hledger installed
• Check your setup
• Start a journal
• Add a transaction: starting balances
• Journal entries
• Account names
• More transactions
• Overview of commands
• print: show whole transactions
• register: show detailed changes
• balance: show account totals
• balancesheet: assets and liabilities
• incomestatement: revenues and expenses
• Reading CSV files
• Importing new transactions
• Reading timeclock files
• Reading timedot files