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| author | Craig Earls <enderw88@gmail.com> | 2013-02-26 15:37:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Craig Earls <enderw88@gmail.com> | 2013-02-26 15:37:15 -0700 |
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diff --git a/doc/ledger3.texi b/doc/ledger3.texi index 44f305f2..dbc25d8f 100644 --- a/doc/ledger3.texi +++ b/doc/ledger3.texi @@ -304,6 +304,16 @@ If you would rather start with your own journal right away please see @ref{Keepi * Using the Windows command line:: @end menu +Please note that as a command line program, Ledger is controlled from +your shell. There are several different command shells that all behave +slightly differently with repsect to some special characters. In +particular, the BaSH shell will interpret $ signs differently than +ledger and they must be escaped to reach the actual program. Another +example is zsh, which will interpret ^ differently than ledger expects. +In all cases that follow you should take that into account when entering +the commandline arguments given. There are too many variations between +shells to give concrete examples for each. + @node Balance Report, Register Report, Run Some Reports, Run Some Reports @subsection Balance Report @cindex balance report |