[Cialug] Finance Software

[Colin Burnett]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Ken MacLeod <ken at bitsko.slc.ut.us> wrote:
>
> I use a two column (amount, purpose) plain text file and the perl
> script below.  The script outputs three columns (amount, balance,
> purpose), skipping lines that start with '#'.  I edit in one window
> and run 'watch' on the script in another window to update every time I
> save the file.  I use perl instead of a spreadsheet because I modify
> the script sometimes for special cases and I'd rather not learn the
> spreadsheet's macro language ;-).  I budget out a couple of months and
> I move older history to another file after checking balances.

That has to be the most esoteric way to budget I have ever seen.  Kudos. :)


Colin