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Stock script problems
I'm have some trouble, I'm doing some unix stuff for fun and I can't get something to work

I have a getquote.sh script:
wget "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=$1" -o /dev/null -O quote
echo `echo $1; egrep "Last Trade:" quote | cut -d ">" -f 3 | cut -d "<" -f 1`

to get the current trading price and I have a portfolio file with the ABBR, price and shares like:
GOOG 300.00 100

I want to get just the first word so I can send the abbr to the getquote.sh script so I did:

gawk '{ print $1 }' portfolio | ./getquote.sh

which should output something but it prints nothing. If I just do the gawk part it will output all the of abbrs in the first column of the file correctly, and the ./getquote.sh GOOG by itself will return the correct output but I can't seem to get them to link up right. Ideas?
 
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finance::quote::yahoo::australia

Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Australia(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		     Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Australia(3pm)

NAME

       Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Australia - Fetch Australian stock quotes via Yahoo.

SYNOPSIS

	   use Finance::Quote;
	   my $q = Finance::Quote->new;

	   my %info = $q->fetch("yahoo_australia","BHP"); # Use this module only.
	   my %info = $q->fetch("australia","BHP"); # Failover with other methods.

DESCRIPTION

       This module allows information to be fetched from Yahoo abouts stocks traded on the Australian Stock Exchange.  Information about indexes
       (such as the All Ordinaries) are not available through this module, although if information is requested from the "australia" source then
       these will automatically failover to direct queries from the Australian Stock Exchange.

       This module is loaded by default on a Finance::Quote object, although it can be explicitly loaded by passing the argument
       "Yahoo::Australia" to Finance::Quote->new().

       This module provides both the "australia" and "yahoo_australia" fetch methods.  You should use the "australia" method if you wish to allow
       failovers to other sources, and "yahoo_australia" if you only want to obtain quotes from this module.

       Information obtained via this module is governed by Yahoo's terms and conditions, see http://au.finance.yahoo.com/ for more details.

LABELS RETURNED

       This module returns all the standard labels (where available) provided by Yahoo, as well as the currency label.	See
       Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Base for more information.

SEE ALSO

       Yahoo Australia, http://au.finance.yahoo.com/

       Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Base

perl v5.14.2							    2014-03-03				     Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Australia(3pm)