From fe9153496a8cf494bc1962de1c43c43ed109d304 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Craig Earls Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:11:36 -0700 Subject: Added a note to the introduction about paying attention to shell expansions --- doc/ledger3.texi | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/ledger3.texi') diff --git a/doc/ledger3.texi b/doc/ledger3.texi index 44f305f2..ae67df19 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 -- cgit v1.2.3 From 09f5e41d96949927c20d9ced2c9d37fa5a9e785a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Craig Earls Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:13:51 -0700 Subject: unescaped a few symbols --- doc/ledger3.texi | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/ledger3.texi') diff --git a/doc/ledger3.texi b/doc/ledger3.texi index ae67df19..dbc25d8f 100644 --- a/doc/ledger3.texi +++ b/doc/ledger3.texi @@ -307,9 +307,9 @@ If you would rather start with your own journal right away please see @ref{Keepi 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 +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. +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. -- cgit v1.2.3