<%method title>getquotes - ticker symbols for your terminal windows getquotes get's your favorite quotes from Yahoo finance.

The latest version is 1.05.

Install

It's really really easy.

• Download the program from http://develooper.com/getquotes/getquotes.
• Set the execute bit (chmod a+x getquotes).
• Install the Finance::YahooQuote module if it's not already installed. (As root: perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Finance::YahooQuote"').
• Then test getquotes by running ./getquotes YHOO VCLK IBM

Usage

Simple:
./getquotes SYM1 SYM2 SYM3

For example:
./getquotes AAPL IBM YHOO

See the builtin documentation for the more advanced options like changing the name of the cache file, the expire time for cached data (defaults to 5 minutes), disabling the cache (not recommended), the timeout period.

Latest changes

• v1.05 (July 9, 2002)
  • Increased default cache max age
• v1.04 (December 15, 2000)
  • More robust timeouts