Insert code field in existing journal

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Hi. Is there a way to take an existing journal file and insert the same code field in every transaction?

I brought in 8 CSV files into 8 separate journal files, and manually edited each journal to fix up a few ‘unknown’ accounts, etc. before deciding I want the code field to denote the source bank account.

I changed my CSV rules files to include the code fields in the future, but really don’t want to re-run the CSV files and have to re-do all the manual adjustments.

I saw a reddit post suggesting using awk to adjust the text files, but thought I should check to see if there was an hledger command to do this. (I read the docs on ‘hledger print’ and came up empty)

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No, there's no hledger command to alter the code field. Since you don't want to redo your manual fixups to the csv conversion, I think awk/sed or a search/replace or macro command in your text editor is the way to go.

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Thanks Simon. I wrote an awk script (my first!) and made the changes. PS - I’m a massive hledger fan – been using it for 5 years and finally decided to streamline my workflows. :slight_smile:

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Excellent!