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Manual Reference Pages - read-expenses (1)

### NAME

> read-expenses - Export Palm Expense application data in a text format.

### CONTENTS

> Section
> Synopsis
> Description
> Options
> Author
> Copyright

### SECTION

> pilot-link: Userland Conduits

### SYNOPSIS

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

### 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.

> 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 read-expenses.

> 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

### OPTIONS

#### READ-EXPENSES OPTION

> -w, --write

> > Write out the expense data

#### CONDUIT OPTIONS

> -p, --port <port>

> > Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, read-expenses will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are found or supplied, read-expenses will print the usage information.

> -q, --quiet

> > Suppress ’Hit HotSync button’ message

> -v, --version

> > Display version of read-expenses and exit without connecting.

#### HELP OPTIONS

> -h, --help

> > Display the help synopsis for read-expenses and exit without connecting.

> --usage

> > Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

### AUTHOR

> read-expenses was originally written by Kenneth Albanowski.

> This manual page was written by Neil Williams linux@codehelp.co.uk

### REPORTING BUGS

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

### SEE ALSO

> pilot-link(7)

### 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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

### SEE ALSO

> install-expenses (1), pilot-link(7).

pilot-link 0.12.0-pre4 | read-expenses (1) | Copyright 1996-2005 FSF

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