IOU

This is a fun little project in C made out of pure boredom.
It is somewhat useful though and you may use it to manage your debts!
And it even saves everything into a file!

PRs and issues are welcome!

1. Dependencies

You will need git for cloning the repo and gcc and make for building iou and ncurses.
Your linux distribution might not come with any of those, so install them:

1.1. Apt:

# apt install git gcc make ncurses

1.2. Pacman:

# pacman -S git gcc make ncurses

2. Installation and setup

1. cd into the directory you wish to contain source code

2. Clone this GitHub repo

$ git clone https://github.com/jantar1154/iou

3. Cd into the iou directory

$ cd iou

4. Build the program

$ make

5. Open config.ini file and edit the contents to your liking

• debtfilelocation: a path where debt file will be saved. Make sure all folders exist!
  For example:

debtfilelocation:/home/chucknorris/.iou/debt.dat

More available settings may be added in the future
6. Run the program

$ ./iou

NOTE:
Alternatively, you can pass an argument which would be path to file other than default ./debt.dat file!
For example: $ ./iou /tmp/my_temp_debt.dat!
Second argument can be your another config file.

3. Usage

You can refer to this chapter or write help into the prompt.

3.1 Available commands:

• help: shows available commands
• list: list your debts
• query: same as list, but you can give a query
• count: prints the number of debts you have
• add: adds a new entry
• edit: edits an existing entry
• exit: exits the program

3.2 Please note:

My command line input does not currently support arrow keys for looking back.

Also write commands exactly as they are, no whitespaces and such.

4. Roadmap

1. Able to edit configuration file from the program itself
2. Add git support (not sure if I want to do it)
3. Drastically improve saving/query system or completely switch to sqlite

Your ideas are welcome in issues. You can alternatively open a pull request!