importing historical quotes into gnucash

[Derek Atkins]

Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

>>> Not that I'm aware of.  Look at a <price> element in your data file.
>>> The hard part will be generating unique guid numbers.
>>
>> If you have e2fsprogs on your system, the chances are good you
>> have /bin/uuidgen.
>>
>>         # /bin/uuidgen 
>>         bc60b372-9b8e-40cf-bf03-11ddfcdde026
>
> Just make sure you remove the dashes when you use these strings.
> The Gnucash GUID is a pure hex string.
>
>   uuidgen | sed -e 's/-//g'

Or you can use the gnucash-make-guids script...

[warlord at cliodev src]$ /opt/gnucash-svn/bin/gnucash-make-guids 1
77788d12de345eb51e7030b83290cb5a

-derek
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