wrote my own financial tracker in awk and rc shell. started using it today. excited about it. 🤷
Discussion
What are you tracking?
categorized in, out, totals.
we need to see to shave, and free up small amounts to invest
Screenshots! This sounds awesome
screenshots wont impress.
and that is what is so great about it.
its just text.
it consists of two scripts.
the first, lg, is used like:
“lg food 12.5 #burrito”
it checks to see if $month.lgr exists, creates if not, and writes the entry with the date inserted in field $1
the second script, lsort, sorts the contents of .lgr files alphabetically, then reads field $2, inserts a new line where field $2 is different from field $2 in the previous line, adds totals for each category on the new line, and a month total at the bottom.
it outputs to
$month.lgr.s.$month$day
so i can run lsort several times during the month to see where im at, with each file reflecting when it was sorted. this could even be a cronjob which gets mailed once a week with
cat
it’s simple, unglamorous, and accurate. im considering writing lcomp, to compare sorted ledger amounts, though i may just do that by hand. 🤷
