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authorJim Kalafut <jim@kalafut.net>2016-06-17 21:25:38 -0700
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Fix documentation typos in section 4.9 (Archiving)
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@@ -2714,14 +2714,17 @@ that make it very simple: @command{print}, and @command{equity}.
Let's take an example file, with data ranging from year 2000 until
2004. We want to archive years 2000 and 2001 to their own file,
-leaving just 2003 and 2004 in the current file. So, use
-@command{print} to output all the earlier transactions to a file
-called @file{ledger-old.dat}:
+leaving 2002--2004 in the current file. So, use @command{print} to
+output all the earlier transactions to a file called
+@file{ledger-old.dat}:
@smallexample
-$ ledger -f ledger.dat -b 2000 -e 2001 print > ledger-old.dat
+$ ledger -f ledger.dat -b 2000 -e 2002 print > ledger-old.dat
@end smallexample
+Note that @option{-e} limits output to transactions @emph{before} the
+date specified.
+
To delete older data from the current ledger file, use @command{print}
again, this time specifying year 2002 as the starting date: