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:
       ================

       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 <pj.pandit@yahoo.co.in>

AUTHOR

       Written by Prasad J Pandit

       Initial category patch: John Westlund

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