[GNC] How to bulk import about 130 Securities entries?

[David G. Pickett]

As xml is text, and xml storage is used in my gnucash, one might add securities by running the *.gnucash through gunzip, add in the text, and run it back through gzip, unless there is a nasty checksum in there somewhere?  Keep a copy of the original!

I pulled this from my file using shell tools, first for SPY SPY SPY 1000 in namespace AMEX with quotes from yahoo_json.  id is Symbol, name is Name, value is Display Symbol.  I don't use ISIN or TimeZone, but you can make a test security and look in the file if you want these fields:
gunzip <GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash | less . . .
<gnc:commodity version="2.0.0">  <cmdty:space>AMEX</cmdty:space>  <cmdty:id>SPY</cmdty:id>  <cmdty:name>SPY</cmdty:name>  <cmdty:fraction>1000</cmdty:fraction>  <cmdty:get_quotes/>  <cmdty:quote_source>yahoo_json</cmdty:quote_source>  <cmdty:quote_tz/>  <cmdty:slots>    <slot>      <slot:key>user_symbol</slot:key>      <slot:value type="string">SPY</slot:value>    </slot>  </cmdty:slots></gnc:commodity> . . .<gnc:commodity version="2.0.0">  <cmdty:space>FUND</cmdty:space>  <cmdty:id>31617E620</cmdty:id>  <cmdty:name>FID GROWTH CO POOL CL 3</cmdty:name>  <cmdty:fraction>1000</cmdty:fraction>  <cmdty:slots>    <slot>      <slot:key>user_symbol</slot:key>      <slot:value type="string">FGCP</slot:value>    </slot>  </cmdty:slots></gnc:commodity> . . . .
A csv import would be nice, though!