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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2024 9:05 pm Post subject: Brinance: UNIX command-line banking |
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hmm sounds interesting... different use for the ol command line :)
http://www.locoburger.org/prog/brinance/
| Quote: | Brinance: UNIX command-line banking
Brinance is a light weight commandline financial planning and tracking program, hoping to be a functional replacement for something like GnuCash that is overly complicated for these simple tasks, and for those who prefer the command line.
This is a personal project of mine, and has thus eveolved a bit since its inception. I originally wrote it C++. It was good enough for most of what I wanted to do, at first. I still have the design I put together for that first version. Soon, though, I wanted to be able to manage multiple accounts and have the ability post transactions in the future (i.e. I get paid the same amount on the 15th and 30th of each month, so I'll post them now and have the program apply them at the right time.). So 2.0 was born, in Perl this time, and I called the C++ version 1.0. 1.0 is stable and works, but is limited in features.
Now I'm planning a 3.x that is still in Perl, but will be mostly a Perl module. Then I'll write a command line Perl program that uses that module and has about the same user interface as 2.x. It won't seem much different but it will be structurally very different from 2.x. The advantage will be that now you can easily write any interface for brinance. More on that on the version 3 page.
All versions of brinance are licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL 2.0.
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