pilot-read-expenses(1)

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version 0.12.5_git20241124 · 2 versions
, in alpine 3.24

okay so first things first, bestie: this is a page from pilot-link, specifically the Userland conduits corner of the universe. And it's all about pilot-read-expenses, which is gonna yeet your Palm's Expense app data out into plain text. iconic behaviour, honestly.

✨ NAME ✨

pilot-read-expenses — Export Palm Expense application data in a text format. no cap, that's literally the whole vibe. 🎀

🌸 SECTION 🌸

pilot-link: Userland conduits — that's the fam she belongs to.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pilot-read-expenses [-p|--port <port>] [-q|--quiet] [--version]
[-?|--help] [--usage] [-w|--write]

like, that's the whole invocation. short and slay. ✨

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so pilot-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. it's giving "liberation of your data" fr fr.

if you have expense entries saved on your Palm in the ExpenseDB.pdb file, you can export them to a simple text format, and redirect that to a file/pipe, or STDOUT (the default) using pilot-read-expenses. yes bestie, STDOUT is the default — she just gives it to you. 💖

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 2004

look at her go. Joe, Mary and Bob are literally at Super Salads. main character lunch. 🥗

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

🍓 pilot-read-expenses option

  • -w, --write — Write out the expense data. that's it, that's the whole job. she writes, you receive. 🫶

🌈 Conduit Options

  • -p, --port port — Use device file port to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pilot-read-expenses will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are found or supplied, pilot-read-expenses will print the usage information. so like, tell her where the Palm is or she's gonna shrug at you. 🙈
  • -q, --quiet — Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message. for when you simply cannot with the reminder, ngl.
  • -v, --version — Display version of pilot-read-expenses and exit without connecting. she tells you her age and dips. 💀

⭐ Help Options

  • -h, --help — Display the help synopsis for pilot-read-expenses and exit without connecting. no Palm required, just lore. 📖
  • --usage — Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting. the tl;dr version, for the girlies on the go. 🏃‍♀️

👑 AUTHOR 👑

pilot-read-expenses was originally written by Kenneth Albanowski. legend behaviour, honestly.

This manual page was converted to XML by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>. the doc glow-up era. ✨

🐛 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.

bestie please don't email your bugs into the void 😭 accountability matters!! point your browser at http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there. 🫶

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

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. (yes, that means no promises, don't come for her if something breaks 💀)

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 (again, she's thorough) 🌟

💖 and that's the page!! brought to you by version 0.13.0, Copyright 1996-2007 FSF — vintage icon behaviour, we stan. bye bestie, go export those expenses 💅✨🌸
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