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hledger-ui — A terminal interface (TUI) for `hledger`, a robust, friendly plain text accounting app. More informa

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Problem

How to use the hledger-ui command: A terminal interface (TUI) for hledger, a robust, friendly plain text accounting app. More information: <https://hledger.org/hledger-ui.html>.

Solution

hledger-ui — A terminal interface (TUI) for hledger, a robust, friendly plain text accounting app. More information: <https://hledger.org/hledger-ui.html>.

Start in the main menu screen, reading from the default journal file:
hledger-ui


Start with a different color theme:
hledger-ui --theme {{terminal|greenterm|dark}}


Start in the balance sheet accounts screen, showing hierarchy down to level 3:
hledger-ui --bs {{[-t|--tree]}} {{[-3|--depth 3]}}


Start in this account's screen, showing cleared transactions, and reload on change:
hledger-ui --register {{assets:bank:checking}} {{[-C|--cleared]}} {{[-w|--watch]}}


Read two journal files, and show amounts as current value when known:
hledger-ui {{[-f|--file]}} {{path/to/2024.journal}} {{[-f|--file]}} {{path/to/2024-prices.journal}} --value now


Show the manual in Info format, if possible:
hledger-ui --info


Display help:
hledger-ui {{[-h|--help]}}

Code Snippets

Start in the main menu screen, reading from the default journal file

hledger-ui

Start with a different color theme

hledger-ui --theme {{terminal|greenterm|dark}}

Start in the balance sheet accounts screen, showing hierarchy down to level 3

hledger-ui --bs {{[-t|--tree]}} {{[-3|--depth 3]}}

Start in this account's screen, showing cleared transactions, and reload on change

hledger-ui --register {{assets:bank:checking}} {{[-C|--cleared]}} {{[-w|--watch]}}

Read two journal files, and show amounts as current value when known

hledger-ui {{[-f|--file]}} {{path/to/2024.journal}} {{[-f|--file]}} {{path/to/2024-prices.journal}} --value now

Context

tldr-pages: common/hledger-ui

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