NAME
pem - GNU personal expenses manager
SYNOPSIS
- pem [OPTIONS] [<description> <amount> ...]
DESCRIPTION
GNU Pem is a handy tool to help you keep track of your personal income
and expenses. Needless to say, using pem is extremely simple and easy.
A command of the following form is all it takes
$ pem "Bus ticket" 10.75
$ pem -f myexpenses.txt Breakfast 20
Pem stores these details in a CSV file, named after the current month,
and placed in the `~/.pem' directory under your $HOME directory. You may
specify some other file using the `-f' option. Also, each amount is considered
as an expenditure unless indicated otherwise by `-e'.
Tags/Categories:
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From version 0.7.4, pem introduced support for tags & categories of
records. You can tag an income and/or expense record as
$ pem -c bills "Cell phone bill" 830.50
$ pem -c 'travel fun leisure' "Trip to Goa" 4500
These are saved with the tags 'bills' & 'travel fun leisure' respectively.
Later, you can see very useful reports showing your category wise expense
traits. Now pem also facilitates filtering of records using tags and
description. Note that, while filtering records, pem first looks into
the tags and when they don't match, goes for the description field.
Ex. To see all your expenses on `travel', you can say
$ pem -s travel
$ pem -m travel
While the first will list all your `travel' expenses in a month; The later
will show the cumulative results for each month till date. Other than this,
pem supports these following options
OPTIONS
-b --bare
show unformatted report
-c --category <name>
categorise/tag your expenses
-e --earned
indicates income
-f --file <name>
specify file name
-s [n]
show daily report with total after [n] days
-m [n]
show monthly report with total after [n] months
-C
show category/tag-wise report
-t --total
shows just the total when used it with -s
-M <mm>
select the start month (01 <= mm <= 12)
-N <mm>
select an end month (01 <= mm <= 12)
-Y <yy>
select an year (00 <= yy <= 99)
-h --help
show this help
-v --version
show version information
ENVIRONMENT
PEMTIME Pem recognizes the PEMTIME environment variable. PEMTIME defines the format in which you want the `Date & Time' to be displayed. For example, if you export PEMTIME="%F", the date "May 31 2007" will be displayed as 2007-05-31. For more information/options please see strftime(3).
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <[email protected]>
AUTHOR
Written by Prasad J Pandit
Initial category patch: John Westlund