Update of shares prices without gnucash

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

jb <jbbrel at yahoo.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using Gnucash for my personal accounting since several years.
> I have recently added stocks accounts.
>
> I would like update, automatically and periodically from my NAS server or from
> my firewall machine, share prices values of my stocks. But those machines are a
> lite linux distribution without gnucash.
>
> I would like to know if it exists a solution to update  share prices without
> using the gnucash -add-price-quotes  command line interface.
> For example, maybe, it exists a script which allows to have only perl on the
> machine to update the xml file of gnucash with shares prices.

Unfortunately no, if you want to update your GnuCash data file with
updated quote data, the only two ways to do it are to use the GnuCash
binary, either with the batch-job on the command line or in the GUI.
There is no "shortcut" or external app you can use to do it at this point.

> Thanks you for your help.
> JeB

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-derek

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