Live Gold Price For Linux Bash Script Example

by jamied_uk 9th June 2018, 19:22

Code:: #!/bin/bash # (c) J~Net 2018 # jnet.forumotion.com/t1633-live-gold-price-for-linux-bash-script-example#2513 # # Example: # # ./gold.sh # # cd /home/jay/Documents/Scripts/Gold # current_directory=`pwd` # cd $current_directory wget https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/gold-price/live-gold-price/ -O out.html cat out.html | grep "data-currency" > out.txt # cat out.txt | sed 's/[^.0-9]*//g' > new.txt # need to remove <td title="Current Gold Price">£<span name="current_price_field" data-currency="default"> clear dt=$(date +%d-%m-%Y) Time=$(date "+%H-%M %p") readarray a < new.txt echo "$dt $Time Current Price For 1 Ounce Gold Is GBP £$a" > gold.txt # use > to replace or >> to append above gold.txt file. cat gold.txt >> gold-list.txt # Remove empty lines. sed -i '/^$/d' gold-list.txt cat gold.txt # Cleanup rm *.html rm out.txt rm new.txt

by jamied_uk 9th June 2018, 19:38

With Date

Code:: #!/bin/bash # (c) J~Net 2018 # jnet.forumotion.com/t1633-live-gold-price-for-linux-bash-script-example#2513 # # Example: # # ./gold.sh # # wget https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/gold-price/live-gold-price/ -O out.html cat out.html | grep "data-currency" > out.txt # cat out.txt | sed 's/[^.0-9]*//g' > new.txt # need to remove <td title="Current Gold Price">£<span name="current_price_field" data-currency="default"> clear dt=$(date +%d-%m-%Y) readarray a < new.txt echo "$dt Current Prices For 1 Ounce Gold Is GBP £$a" > final.txt cat final.txt # # echo $a

by jamied_uk 9th June 2018, 19:46

Tracking Prices Script

Code:: #!/bin/bash # (c) J~Net 2018 # jnet.forumotion.com/t1633-live-gold-price-for-linux-bash-script-example#2513 # # Example: # # ./track.sh # # wget https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/gold-price/live-gold-price/ -O out.html cat out.html | grep "data-currency" > out.txt # we want just the numbers for the price. # below is to filter cat out.txt | sed 's/[^.0-9]*//g' > new.txt # need to remove <td title="Current Gold Price">£<span name="current_price_field" data-currency="default"> clear # date for tracking dt=$(date +%d-%m-%Y) readarray a < new.txt # read lines as an array so only the 1st line can be echoed! echo "$dt Current Price For 1 Ounce Gold Is GBP £$a" >> track.txt # use > to replace or >> to append above track file. cat track.txt # # echo $a

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