--add-price-quotes not working

[David T.]

I haven't seen any replies to your problem. Did you figure it out?

I am on a Mac, but there were troubles with the command line add-price-quotes option on the Mac when the path included a space in it. Is it possible that your "\path\to\my\gnucash\file" includes a space, and if so, does moving it to a path without one fix the problem?

Cheers,
David


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 From: Jonas Lippuner <jonas at lippuner.ca>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2012 8:41 PM
Subject: --add-price-quotes not working
 
Hi there,

I've been using GnuCash for a while and I just created my own Perl module to automatically fetch the current NAV of a mutual fund of mine. Getting this quote as well as any other currency exchange rates works very well when I use Tools > Price Editor > Get Quotes in GnuCash.

But since I don't want to have to click that button all the time, I wold like GnuCash to execute the "Get Quotes" function automatically on startup.

I found that I could execute the command

gnucash --add-price-quotes "D:\path\to\my\gnucash\file"

When I execute this command, a console window appears showing that perl.exe is being executed. However, the window disappears very quickly and none of the prices seem to get updated. When I click on "Get Quotes" in GnuCash, the same window appears, but it takes much longer until it disappears again (after which the prices are all updated). So it seems that the --add-price-quotes command line option does not work.

Furthermore, when I start GnuCash, the same window with perl.exe being executed appears for about the same amount of time as when I use the --add-price-quotes option. So it seems that GnuCash would actually automatically update all the prices on startup (which is exactly what I want), but it simply doesn't work. It only works when I manually click on "Get Quotes"...

I'm using GnuCash 2.4.10 built form svn r22003 on 2012-02-11 on Windows 7 Professional (64 bit).

Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks,
Jonas
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