Hi! Let's say I want to have most of my ledger entries in an "old" file and
more recent entries in "new."
Perhaps for old.ledger:
2017/06/01 opening balances
assets: cash $100
equity: opening balances
2017/06/06 fubar
expenses: car: gas
assets: cash $-20
and new.ledger:
2018/01/01 opening balances
assets: cash = $80
equity: opening balances
2018/04/04 fahrvergnugen
expenses: car: maintenance
assets: cash $-60
2018/12/31 balance assertions
assets: cash $0 = $20
My hope is that this would work whether I run only the new file or both old
and new together. When running together, the 2018/01/01 entry would
essentially be a null entry with how I
understand https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Resetting-a-balance
But when running just as new, it would give me an opening balance of $80.
It works as expected for new:
$ ledger -f new.ledger bal
$20 assets: cash
$-80 equity: opening balances
$60 expenses: car: maintenance
--------------------
0
But when running both:
$ ledger -f old.ledger -f new.ledger bal
$100 assets: cash
$-180 equity: opening balances
$80 expenses: car
$20 gas
$60 maintenance
--------------------
0
This is the result with the order of input files reversed as well. That
doesn't seem right to me with my expectation that the 2018/01/01 entry
should essentially be a null/noop entry.
I also tried all.ledger:
2017/06/01 opening balances
assets: cash $100
equity: opening balances
2017/06/06 fubar
expenses: car: gas
assets: cash $-20
2018/01/01 opening balances
assets: cash = $80
equity: opening balances
2018/04/04 fahrvergnugen
expenses: car: maintenance
assets: cash $-60
2018/12/31 balance assertions
assets: cash $0 = $20
Which gives:
$ ledger -f all.ledger bal
While parsing file ".../all.ledger", line 11:
Error: Only one posting with null amount allowed per transaction
But that entry worked fine in new.journal! And the docs say indicate is
allowable as well:
5.10.3 Resetting a balance
Say your book-keeping has gotten a bit out of date, and your Ledger balance
no longer matches your bank balance. You can create an adjustment
transaction using balance assignments:
2012-03-10 Adjustment
Assets:Cash = $500.00
Equity:Adjustments
Since the second posting is also null, it’s value will become the inverse
of whatever amount is generated for the first posting.
This is the only time in ledger when more than one posting’s amount may be
empty—and then only because it’s not truly empty, it is indirectly provided
by the balance assignment’s value.
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