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Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. Ledger, begun in 2003, is written by John Wiegley and released under the BSD license.

## Installation

There are several ports of ledger to various languages. ledger is the original. hledger is a port to haskell, which is also popular.

## Usage

The online documentation contains a tutorial to help new users get started.

Tip: To avoid having to type `--file /path/to/finances.ledger` every time you invoke ledger, consider setting `LEDGER_FILE` as one of your Environment variables or add `--file /path/to/finances.ledger` to your `.ledgerrc`.

Emacs users may be interested in using ledger-mode. ledger-mode is available on MELPA and comes with info, accessible via `C-h i m Ledger mode RET`.

## Tips and tricks

### Assign commodity during ledger convert

By default, ledger does not assign a commodity when it converts from csv files to ledger format. To have it assign a currency when one is missing, you can make a currency the default commodity of a ledger file by adding something like this to the file:

    commodity $
      note US Dollar
      default
      nomarket
      format $1,000.00

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