add-price-quotes - windows command line

[Colin Law]

2009/7/8  <tstalker at word-builder.com>:
> I've been trying to get the add-price-quotes command to work in my gnucash
> program on my Windows XP computer. The file I need to run is on a different
> hard drive from the program. Via the command line, I navigate to C:\Program
> Files\gnucash\bin, where I run gnucash --add-price-quotes H:\My
> Documents\Finances\software\gnucash\test
>

I don't know about the other questions but in the command line you
would need quotes round the file name as it has an embedded space.

Colin

> test is the name of the file. I get a runtime error that I can't remember
> now here at work, but I tried the syntax of the command differently, using
> $HOME\path-file, reversing the slashes in the path, all multiple times.
>
> Same thing.
>
> Then I quit gnucash and tried running the command as well. Same thing.
>
> Then I tried updating prices from GUI. Would run but wouldn't update prices.
> I think because I had already updated them from the GUI earlier.
>
> Is there a way to run the price editor auto updates by not using the command
> line? Does the file have to reside on the same hard drive? How can I make a
> cron job in Windows to update at a certain time?
>
> I'm rather comfortable with the command line on Unix but not in Windows. I
> never use the terminal in Windows to do anything.
>
> Thanks, all
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