read-expenses(1) - Linux man page

Name

read-expenses - Connect to the Palm handheld and dump the Expense application

data in a simple format

Synopsis

If you have expense entries saved on your Palm in the ExpenseDB.pdb file, you can dump them to a simple text format, and redirect that to a file/pipe, or STDOUT (the default) using read-expenses. The syntax is:

read-expenses [-p <port>]

The output data will resemble something like the following:

Category: Unfiled
Type: 5

Payment: 7

Currency: 23

Amount: 400.00

Vendor: Super Salads

City: Westerly

Attendees: Joe, Mary, Bob

Note: Some simple note text

Date: Fri May 9 00:00:00 2003

Description

read-expenses is used to output the Expense data in a simple text format, which can be used to import into any other application you wish, such as Excel or other application.

Options

-p, --port <port>: Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If both are not found or supplied, install-expenses will fall back to /dev/pilot.
-h, --help: Display the help synopsis for pi-getram.
-v, --version: Display version of pi-getram.

Usage

Connect to a target Palm handheld and dump the Expense data.

Bugs

KNOWN BUGS

read-expenses has no known bugs at this time.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs at http://bugs.pilot-link.org/

Author

read-expenses was originally written by Kenneth Albanowski.

Referenced By

install-expenses(1)