budget

budget

Simple command-line budget tool.

How to use

go get github.com/shawnps/budget

mkdir budget

Filenames must use format YYYYMM.txt:

budget/202105.txt

Files must be in following format:

1000
5.50 sushi
10.50 sushi
15.00 sushi
8.00 book
3.00 coffee
10.00 book
8.00 sushi
4.00 coffee
3.00 coffee

The top number is the total you want to spend per month. Each line after is something you bought.

Either call the command from one directory outside of budget/, or provide the directory with -d.

$ budget -m 202105
Total:         1000.00
Remaining:     933.00
Remaining/day: 42.41
Top costs:
    sushi:  39.00
    book:   18.00
    coffee: 10.00

Tags

You can also create tags in a tags.txt file:

food: sushi, coffee
books: book

then pass the -short flag:

$ budget -m 202105 -short
Total:         1000.00
Remaining:     933.00
Remaining/day: 42.41
Costs:
    food:  49.00
    books: 18.00

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