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Query Google Finance From the Command Line

This is a one line bash script I wrote to query a stock’s price from Google Finance. It uses wget to get the HTML page from Google Finance and then grep and cut to extract the stock’s price. The script is based on the current HTML format of the Google Finance pages and might not work if Google decide to change this format (It’s easy to modify, though).

To have the script:

Open your favorite text editor (mine is vim), and type/paste this:

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Tags: Command Line Interface, Productivity, Shell Scripts