I'll volunteer to help...
Scott Minster
scott at mland.dhs.org
Thu Aug 14 08:24:03 CDT 2003
> The command "gnucash --add-price-quotes $HOME/gnucash.xac" can be
> used to fetch the current prices of your stocks. This can be
> automated by creating a crontab entry. For example, to update your
> file every Friday evening after the Wall Street markets close
> (modify the time accordingly for your time zone), you could add the
> following to your personal crontab:
>
> 0 16 * * 5 gnucash --add-price-quotes
> $HOME/gnucash.xac > /dev/null 2>&1
Does this work if Gnucash is already open with that file? I tend to leave
Gnucash up all the time since it takes so long to regenerate all the
different reports I have.
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Scott Minster
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