Getting stock price updates.

Sergio Dominguez sergio at skynet.ie
Mon Sep 29 18:01:34 CDT 2003



> 	echo '(yahoo "CSCO")' | finance-quote-helper
> 
> You may have to find the finance-quote-helper program.  Its installed
> with gnucash.  Your output should look like this:
> 
> 	(("CSCO" (symbol . "CSCO")
> 	 (gnc:time-no-zone . "2003-09-29 11:26:00")
> 	 (last . 20.20)
> 	 (currency . "USD")))
> 

Actually I have 2 machines, one with Suse 8.2 and gnucash 1.8.5
installed which output would be.

sergio at aeolia:~> echo '(yahoo "CSCO")' | finance-quote-helper
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.                                                                                8.0/LWP/Protocol.pm line 114, <> line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/site                                                                                _perl/5.8.0/LWP/Protocol.pm line 87, <> line 1.
#f
sergio at aeolia:~> 

And a Mandrake 9.1 with gnucash 1.8.1 (installed it today, I have not updated it yet)

which output is....

sergio at wind18:~> echo '(yahoo "CSCO")' | finance-quote-helper

#f
sergio at wind18:~>


Well, this is what i get. Unfortunately I have no clue of PERL.



Sergio



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