Trying my wings with Awk
Last week I described my goal of changing my hledger account names to lowercase (except for proper nouns). For example, instead of I wished to have In short, the.
Making changes with and without sed
As mentioned last week, I wanted to change my account names to lowercase. For example, instead of my current: Expenses:Groceries I wished to have: expenses:groceries I also had waxed.
Three ways to make changes to an hledger data file
Sometimes you need to change some data in your hledger file. For example, you made purchases from Acme, but you realize that in your hledger file the name was.
Good intentions or good results?
To follow up on the August 3 Thoughtful Thursday post immediately below, it’s worth looking at the last step in the diagram. Specifically, you want to improve your life.
Why use hledger?
One worthwhile reason to use hledger is to improve your life and the lives of those around you. How does that work? I created the diagram below, inspired by.