Question: Shell Scripting Question: Here is my code, it runs. In my stocks.txt file (also found below) I have 4 stock symbols that I need to
Shell Scripting Question: Here is my code, it runs. In my stocks.txt file (also found below) I have 4 stock symbols that I need to output. I get 4 outputs but it is the same one for all 4 boxes as you see when you run the code.
# # for loop to process stock list # clear
while true do for stock in `cat stocks.txt` do wget -qO- http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=$stock\&f=nl1c1v >data1
cat data1 | sed s/", "/" "/g >data2 mv data2 data1
change=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $3}'` negative=`echo $change | grep "-" | wc -l` positive=`echo $change | grep "+" | wc -l`
if [ $negative -eq 1 ] then # # 1 = red, 0 = black # tput setab 1; tput setaf 0; else if [ $positive -eq 1 ] then # # 2 = green, 0 = black # tput setab 2; tput setaf 0; fi fi
# Top left box tput cup 1 10; echo " " tput cup 1 10; echo " $stock"
name=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{printf "%-14.14s", $1}'` tput cup 2 10; echo " " tput cup 2 10; echo "$name"
price=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $2}'` tput cup 3 10; echo " " tput cup 3 10; echo "$price"
change=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $3}'` tput cup 4 10; echo " " tput cup 4 10; echo "$change"
volume=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $4}'` tput cup 5 10; echo " " tput cup 5 10; echo "$volume"
#Bottom left box tput cup 7 10; echo " " tput cup 7 10; echo " $stock"
name=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{printf "%-14.14s", $1}'` tput cup 8 10; echo " " tput cup 8 10; echo "$name"
price=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $2}'` tput cup 9 10; echo " " tput cup 9 10; echo "$price"
change=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $3}'` tput cup 10 10; echo " " tput cup 10 10; echo "$change"
volume=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $4}'` tput cup 11 10; echo " " tput cup 11 10; echo "$volume"
#Top right box tput cup 1 30; echo " " tput cup 1 30; echo " $stock"
name=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{printf "%-14.14s", $1}'` tput cup 2 30; echo " " tput cup 2 30; echo "$name"
price=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $2}'` tput cup 3 30; echo " " tput cup 3 30; echo "$price"
change=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $3}'` tput cup 4 30; echo " " tput cup 4 30; echo "$change"
volume=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $4}'` tput cup 5 30; echo " " tput cup 5 30; echo "$volume"
#Bottom right box tput cup 7 30; echo " " tput cup 7 30; echo " $stock"
name=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{printf "%-14.14s", $1}'` tput cup 8 30; echo " " tput cup 8 30; echo "$name"
price=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $2}'` tput cup 9 30; echo " " tput cup 9 30; echo "$price"
change=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $3}'` tput cup 10 30; echo " " tput cup 10 30; echo "$change"
volume=`cat data1 | awk -F, '{print $4}'` tput cup 11 30; echo " " tput cup 11 30; echo "$volume"
#Reset colors back to default tput setaf 7; tput setab 0; sleep 2 done done
Text file (stocks.txt)
MCD AAPL NKE DIS
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