GNUCASH(1)

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version 5.17 · 12 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable

✨ GNUCASH — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the GnuCash Manual Pages 💖 this is the glow-up edition of GNUCASH(1) and we're gonna read it together, no skimming, no cap.

🦋 NAME

gnucash — your personal finance manager 💸✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS

gnucash [options] [ accounts.gnucash ]

💅 DESCRIPTION

GnuCash is a personal accounting package that lets you record and track your income, your expenses, your assets, and your investments. it does reconciliation, it has substantial reporting capabilities, and it's extensible using guile. it can import QIF data from Quicken(TM) and a whole bunch of other commercial accounting packages. it uses GTK+ and GNOME to give you an attractive user interface, and it has extensive online help. she's versatile, she's pretty, she's giving main character energy 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --version — shows you the GnuCash version 🏷️
  • --help — shows you this help message 🫶
  • --debug — turns on debugging mode: it cranks the logging up so you get deep detail 🔍
  • --extra — turns on extra / development / debugging features 🧪
  • --log — log level overrides, and they look like "log.ger.path={debug,info,warn,crit,error}". you can specify this option multiple times 🪵
  • --logto — the file to log into; it defaults to "$TMPDIR/gnucash.trace". use "stderr" or "stdout" to write to the terminal 📝
  • --paths — shows you the installation and configuration paths 🗺️
  • --nofile — do NOT load the last file you opened 🙈

🎀 FILES

  • ~/.gnucash/config.auto — the automatically generated per-user configuration file.
DO NOT EDIT MANUALLY! fr fr, hands off bestie 💀

🌈 ENVIRONMENT

  • GNC_DEBUG — enables debugging output. this lets you 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 either. for more information see the README file 📖

😭 BUGS

please report any bugs using the bug reporting form on the GnuCash web site 🐛 not me manifesting a bug-free run tho

🔥 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: https://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 🌟 iconic honestly

and that's the whole thing bestie!! this was Version 5.17+, dated 2026-09-26, and it lives in the GnuCash Manual Pages section as GNUCASH(1) 💖 go track those expenses, you absolute legend 🫶✨

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