Manual Reference Pages  - read-expenses (1)

NAME

read-expenses - Export Palm Expense application data in a text format.

CONTENTS

Section
Synopsis
Description
Options
Author
Copyright

SECTION

pilot-link: Userland Conduits

SYNOPSIS

read-expenses [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-q|--quiet] [-?|--help] [--usage] [-w|--write]

DESCRIPTION

read-expenses is used to output the Expense data in a simple text format, which can be used to import into any other application you wish, such as Excel or other application.

If you have expense entries saved on your Palm in the ExpenseDB.pdb file, you can export them to a simple text format, and redirect that to a file/pipe, or STDOUT (the default) using read-expenses.

The output data will resemble something like the following:

Category: Unfiled Type: 5 Payment: 7 Currency: 23 Amount: 400.00 Vendor: Super Salads City: Westerly Attendees: Joe, Mary, Bob Note: Some simple note text Date: Fri May 9 00:00:00 2004

OPTIONS

    READ-EXPENSES OPTION

-w, --write
Write out the expense data

    CONDUIT OPTIONS

-p, --port <port>
Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, read-expenses will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are found or supplied, read-expenses will print the usage information.

-q, --quiet

Suppress ’Hit HotSync button’ message

-v, --version

Display version of read-expenses and exit without connecting.

    HELP OPTIONS

-h, --help
Display the help synopsis for read-expenses and exit without connecting.

--usage

Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

AUTHOR

read-expenses was originally written by Kenneth Albanowski.

This manual page was written by Neil Williams linux@codehelp.co.uk

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs at: http://bugs.pilot-link.org

SEE ALSO

pilot-link(7)

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

SEE ALSO

install-expenses (1), pilot-link(7).


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