Still playing around with this.

When I run this command:

ledger file.ledger balance --budget -p "this month" --exchange USD 

I receive the amount remaining available for the month but it doesn't show 
the percent remaining. Can you show me how to do this? if it's possible?

I tried using awk but it made things very messy. I would just like to see 
something like this:

$1000.00  50%  Expenses
$500.00   25%        Mortgage
$500.00  80%         Restaurants

Right now I just see this:

$1000.00   Expenses
$500.00       Mortgage
$500.00        Restaurants


On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 11:13:24 AM UTC-5 o1bigtenor wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 10:56 AM Scott A. Nichols <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> >
> > ok, thanks for the responses. I don't want to stop using ledger because 
> it's the only program I have ever enjoyed and I've tried many. My work 
> around (in case anyone ever has this problem in the future) is I created an 
> excel file with the same formatting as ledger's budgeting system. The excel 
> file will automatically calculate the exchange rates from my base currency 
> to the foreign currency.
> >
> > In ledger I run ledger -f ledgerfile.ledger bal expenses -p "this month"
> >
> > I transfer the expense categories into my excel file and I immediately 
> see my budget in my base currency in all categories. It's a tiny bit of 
> extra work but it works and more importantly I can keep using ledger using 
> this method.
> >
> >
> The issue that I ran into was the rather common currency fluctuations
> and when they moved a lot, you know an election
> here or there or whatever made the forex weenies get their knickers in
> a twist - - - well then I had to keep pretty close
> track to have some idea what was going on. I used to use Oanda's
> online historical calendar but they made it so that
> it only works one month backwards - - - oh well - - - I haven't been
> doing as much travelling so haven't worked on
> finding more 'solution' - - - - your's is a pretty good solution so I
> just might use some of it for at least forecasting.
>
> HTH
>

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