Command Line to Get the Stock Quote via Yahoo

curl -s 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=csco&f=l1'
Retrieve the current stock price from Yahoo Finance. The output is simply the latest price (which could be delayed). If you want to look up stock for a different company, replace csco with your symbol.
Sample Output 
19.58

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By: haivu
2009-05-04 08:13:59
curl finance
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how do you change it to find the stock price of companys on the London Stock Exchange.
felix001 · 879 weeks and 1 day ago
@felix001: I don't know. I googled for a while, but could not find anything useful.
haivu · 879 weeks and 1 day ago
Great! This is what I need! Thanks a lot!
unixmonkey3715 · 877 weeks and 6 days ago
how can i ad the time and date to the stock quote? I want output that looks like: 20091117 10:59 - price stock and then append that to a file? I already use a command that makes the timestamp with whatever i type after it: echo `date +'%Y%m%d %H:%M - '` SOMETHING >> ~/pt/notes.txt" appends SOMETHING to a file. I just want SOMETHING to be the stock price. Any ideas about how i could do that?
kjowens · 850 weeks and 6 days ago
@kjowens: I don't know how. Sorry I can't help you there.
haivu · 850 weeks and 5 days ago
As a do-it-yourselfer without much perl knowhow, others like me might benefit from the trial and error I waded throuugh to get rouninsaurai's perl script to work. I balanced the bracket and apostrophes at system("curl -s ' with ' ") at the endof the line and inserted the variable $stocker (without spaces) in place of the stock ticker in the bash script. Probably obvious to most, but might help some.
hilltownboy · 641 weeks and 2 days ago

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Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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