what

Java command line tool that takes a very specific Excel spreadsheet and outputs the rows relevant to me. --help is included

• The Wolf only ever needs to hear your employee id once. The Wolf remembers it from then on.
• The Wolf tells you your most recent paid expense reports OR all your paid expense reports
• The Wolf is Java, so...
  • The Wolf [should] run on Mac, Windows, and Linux
  • The Wolf is private final String pretty on the inside, too
  • The Wolf has both desirable traits of a command-line app: efficient long-term number-crunching and slow startup time

how

usage

usage: java -jar wolf-1.0.jar [OPTIONS] --file [absolute path to xls]
 -a,--all                 get every expense report you've submitted
 -e,--employee-id <arg>   employee id number. can be saved with -s
 -f,--file <arg>          absolute path to expense report xls
 -h,--help                print this message
 -s,--save-id             saves a file in home directory with employee id

so then, for example:

• java -jar wolf-1.0.jar --employee-id 10000 --save-id --file path/to/my/spreadsheet.xls, the first time
• java -jar wolf-1.0.jar --file path/to/my/spreadsheet.xls, every other time

buildage

1. make sure gradle is installed
2. gradle jar builds a 'fat jar', including all dependencies (found in build.gradle)

why

I'm a traveling consultant, which means lots of expense reports and little time. A giant Excel sheet is made available periodically, but parsing through it is frustrating and tedious enough that it never happens. When a new sheet is released, I give it to this tool and see which reports have been paid recently (default) or for all time (--all)

license

Apache 2.0