tldr/pages/common/hledger-accounts.md

hledger accounts

List account names. More information: https://hledger.org/hledger.html#accounts.

• Show all accounts used or declared in the default journal file:

hledger {{[acc|accounts]}}

• Show accounts used by transactions:

hledger {{[acc|accounts]}} {{[-u|--used]}}

• Show accounts declared with account directives:

hledger {{[acc|accounts]}} {{[-d|--declared]}}

• Add new account directives, for accounts used but not declared, to the journal:

hledger {{[acc|accounts]}} --undeclared --directives >> {{2024-accounts.journal}}

• Show accounts with asset in their name, and their declared/inferred types:

hledger {{[acc|accounts]}} asset --types

• Show accounts of the Asset type:

hledger {{[acc|accounts]}} type:A

• Show the first two levels of the accounts hierarchy:

hledger {{[acc|accounts]}} {{[-t|--tree]}} --depth 2

• Short form of the above:

hledger acc -t -2