Running is therapy

I downloaded the QIF formatted checking account transactions from my bank this morning. I opened it in vi and was looking around…spent about 4 minutes looking at perl modules to parse it…spent 30 seconds thinking about writing a script to parse them and do various things with the output…then I figured fooey on all that. I deleted all the entries but the ones for going out to eat. Then I ran it through a bash one liner


$: egrep -r "T-" QIFDownload.qif | awk -F"T-" '{print $2}' | awk '{sum+=$1} END{printf("%.2f\n",sum)}'
241.79


That’s right…in the last month I have spent almost 250 dollars in eating out…most of it lunches. GAH :)