gnucash (1)

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NAME

gnucash - personal finance manager

SYNOPSIS

gnucash [options] [ accounts.gnc ]

DESCRIPTION

GnuCash is a personal accounting package that allows you to record and track income, expenses, assets, and investments. It supports reconciliation, has substantial reporting capabilities, and is extensible using guile. It can import QIF data from Quicken(TM) and many other commercial accounting packages. It uses GTK+ and GNOME to provide an attractive user interface, and has extensive online help.

OPTIONS

--version

Show GnuCash version

--help

Show this help message

--debug

Enable debugging mode: increasing logging to provide deep detail.

--extra

Enable extra/development/debugging features.

--log

Log level overrides, of the form "log.ger.path={debug,info,warn,crit,error}"

--logto

File to log into; defaults to "/tmp/gnucash.trace"; can be "stderr" or "stdout".

--nofile

Do not load the last file opened

--add-price-quotes FILE

Add price quotes to the given data file

--namespace=REGEXP

Regular expression determining which namespace commodities will be retrieved.

FILES

~/.gnucash/config.auto

Automatically generated per-user configuration file. DO NOT EDIT MANUALLY!

ENVIRONMENT

GNC_DEBUG

Enable debugging output. This allows you to turn on the debugging earlier in the startup process than you can with --debug.

GUILE_LOAD_PATH

An override for the GnuCash scheme load path. You shouldn't need to alter this. For more information see the README file.

GNC_MODULE_PATH

An override for the GnuCash scheme load path for Gnucash modules. You shouldn't need to alter this. For more information see the README file.

BUGS

Please report any bugs using the bug reporting form on the GnuCash web site.

SEE ALSO

GnuCash has extensive on-line help available from the "help" menu.
Additional information and the latest version is available at the web site: www.gnucash.org

AUTHOR

Robert Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net> wrote this manpage.
GnuCash was written by Robin Clark, Linas Vepstas, and a cast of thousands.