pilot-install-exp(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to pilot-install-exp(1) from the PILOT-LINK manual — literally the page for pilot-install-expenses, aka the conduit that installs expense record entries onto your Palm handheld device 💸🫶.

🦋 SECTION 🦋

pilot-link: Userland conduits — that's the section vibe, iykyk.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

        pilot-install-expenses [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-q|--quiet]
       [-?|--help] [--usage] [-t|--ptype  STRING] [-e|--etype  STRING]
       [-a|--amount  STRING] [-V|--vendor  STRING] [-i|--city  STRING]
       [-g|--guests  NUMBER] [-n|--note  STRING] [-c|--category  STRING]
       [--replace]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

pilot-install-expenses lets a Palm handheld with the Expense application have expense records synchronized to it from the commandline. You can pass any of the fields (except categories, currently) to pilot-install-expenses and create new expense records on your Palm handheld. No cap, it's giving commandline expense slay 💅.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

🎀 pilot-install-expenses options 🎀

• -t, --ptype STRING — Add entries to the "Payment Type" field. These can be in the form of "Cash", "Cheque" and others. See the Expense application on your Palm device for full details on payment types. Heads up: the long name for this option has been renamed since 0.11.8.
• -e, --etype STRING — Add entries to the "Expense Type" field. These can be in the form of Airfare, Meals, and Others. See the Expense application on your Palm device for full details on expense types.
• -a, --amount STRING — Add currency amount entries to the "Amount" field. These can be in the form of 1.00 or "$10.00" and so on. See the Expense application on your Palm device for full details on amount types.
• -V, --vendor STRING — Add entries to the "Vendor" field. These are free-form values, and can be the name of a restaurant, an airline, or any other text value you wish to use.
• -g, --guests DIGIT — Add the number of attendees to the expense record, identified by DIGIT. If you ate lunch with four (4) additional people, you would put five (5) here, a numeric value. (The synopsis calls this NUMBER, btw.)
• -i, --city STRING — Add entries to the "City" field in the expense record. These are free-form values, and can be the name of the location, city, or town that the expense record occured in.
• -n, --note STRING — Add a "Note" entry to the expense record. These are free-form values, and can be some notes related to the expense entry.
• -c, --category STRING — Install entries into the named category defined here. See the Expense application on your Palm device for full details on using these categories.
• --replace — Replace the entry found in the named category identified by the --category option. Note that the short name for this option has been removed since 0.11.8.

🫶 Conduit Options 🫶

• -p, --port port — Use device file port to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pilot-install-expenses will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are found or supplied, pilot-install-expenses will print the usage information.
• -q, --quiet — Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message.
• --version — Display version information for pilot-install-expenses and exit without connecting.

🧚 Help options 🧚

• -h, --help — Display the help synopsis for pilot-install-expenses and exit without connecting.
• --usage — Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

also the synopsis spells help as -?|--help — it's right there in the code block, bestie, so don't miss it ✨.

⭐ USAGE ⭐

The program will connect to the Palm handheld, and install entries into the Expense application based on values passed to pilot-install-expenses arguments. Simple as that, no cap.

🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

        pilot-install-expenses  -p  /dev/pilot  -c Unfiled -t Cash -e Meals -a
       10.00 -V McDonalds -g 21 -l "San Francisco" -N "This is a note"

Installs a new expense; you are recording having 21 guests at McDonalds in the city of San Francisco for a meal which cost 10.00 units of your default currency and you added a simple note. The expense will take the default date - today.

psa: the example uses -l and -N exactly like the page prints, so I'm leaving those exact, bestie 🫶.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

pilot-install-expenses was originally written by community authors, the original author is unknown.

This manual page was converted to XML by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>. Give him his flowers 💐.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

We have an online bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until they are resolved or closed. Reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very useful in terms of accountability. Please point your browser to http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there.

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

read-expenses (1), pilot-link(7) — go read those next, bestie ✨.

mwah 💋 that's the whole page — version 0.13.0, copyright 1996-2007 FSF. Now go install those expenses and slay 💸👑.