Using Tim's approach, I have: 642 accounts 6423 transactions and it took 4 minutes, 6 seconds to close the books.
Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Tim Wunder wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:08:05 am David Reiser wrote: >> Is there a convenient way to count total transactions? I have about >> 100 expense accounts and 20 income accounts with a 16MB uncompressed >> data file, and it took just over 4 minutes to close my books as of >> today for about 3 years worth of transactions. Mac OS X 10.5, ppc G5 >> chip, svn r16781 >> > > You can try: > zcat $DATAFILE |grep -c "act:name" > for the accounts > substitute 'grep -c "trn:desc"' to get the number of transactions. > > HTH, > Tim _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel