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Bash – a quick stock quote function

February 27, 2011, 3:49 pm

Wrote this and stuck it in my .bashrc file so I could get a realtime stock quote quickly from my shell sessions.

stock ()
{
lynx -dump "http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=${1}" | sed 's/.*']'//' | \
perl -00ne "print if /Watch this stock/i" | sed 's/Watch this stock//' | sed 's/Disclaimer//' | \
sed '/^$/d' | sed 's/Currency in USD//'
}

crouse@archie stock slv

slv
30.26
+0.08 (0.27%)
Real-time: 11:41AM EST

1. Range 30.14 – 30.44
2. 52 week 14.37 – 30.44
3. Open 30.29
4. Vol / Avg. 9.57M/26.84M
5. Mkt cap 9.73B
6. P/E 95.32
7. Div/yield -
8. EPS 0.32
9. Shares 321.50M
10. Beta 0.38
11. Inst. own 25%

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