[Bug 628734] Get Quotes at Startup Option

[David T.]

--- On Thu, 9/16/10, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:

> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [Bug 628734] Get Quotes at Startup Option
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "devel gnucash" <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 10:10 AM
> 
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 1:37 PM, David T. wrote:
> 
> > I guess this question is directed mostly to John
> Ralls:
> > 
> > If I wanted to adopt Frank's suggestion of a shell
> script for this, how might I do it in the Mac OS X realm
> that you have packaged? 
> > 
> > In a terminal window, I tried:
> > dhtmbp:~ david$
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
> --add-price-quotes
> > Found Finance::Quote version 1.15
> > Abort trap
> > 
> > OS X also gave me an application crash.
> > 
> > Then I tried:
> > dhtmbp:~ david$
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
> --add-price-quotes=/Volumes/Records/Financials/My\ Accounts
> > /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash: line
> 130: [: too many arguments
> > Found Finance::Quote version 1.15
> > Abort trap
> > 
> > With another system crash.
> > 
> > Suggestions?
> 
> 
> Do you have the latest dmg (2.3.15.2)? For some reason that
> doesn't quite make sense to me, this works on that build but
> not on the previous one, at least on my system.
> Incidentally, you need to wrap your directory in quotes so
> that the shell doesn't see the space as a break when it's
> passed to Gnucash. (Otherwise the backslash escaping the
> space gets stripped by the launcher script.)

I am running 2.2.9-4. I am not the adventurous type, except once in a while. The note about the launcher script stripping out the escaped space explains the "too many arguents" error--but not the Abort trap. 

David

> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
>