pilot-read-expenses(1)
NAME
pilot-read-expenses - Export Palm Expense application data in a text
format.
SECTION
pilot-link: Userland conduits
SYNOPSIS
pilot-read-expenses [-p|--port <port>] [-q|--quiet] [--version]
[-?|--help] [--usage] [-w|--write]
DESCRIPTION
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- pilot-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, pilot-read-expenses will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are found or supplied, pilot-read-expenses will print the usage information.
-q,
--quiet- Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message
-v, --version- Display version of pilot-read-expenses and exit without connecting.
- Help Options
- -h, --help
- Display the help synopsis for pilot-read-expenses and exit without connecting.
--usage- Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.
AUTHOR
- pilot-read-expenses was originally written by Kenneth Albanowski.
- This manual page was converted to XML by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>
REPORTING BUGS
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SEE ALSO
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
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SEE ALSO
- install-expenses (1), pilot-link(7).