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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to use WGET command to get today's date? Post 302515792 by newbie09 on Thursday 21st of April 2011 01:33:51 AM
Old 04-21-2011
how to use WGET command to get today's date?
I need to get the current date off a remote site, such as Google or Yahoo.
Does anyone know how to use the wget command on a Solaris 10 system to do this? I recall a long time ago, where using "wget" will get a bunch of info off a site, and then, you can extract the date from all of that info.

This is what I tried, and it doesn't work:


/usr/sfw/bin/wget yahoo dot com (I can't paste the link here)
 

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finance::quote::yahoo::brasil

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

NAME

       Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Brasil - Fetch Brasiln stock quotes via Yahoo.

SYNOPSIS

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

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

DESCRIPTION

       This module allows information to be fetched from Yahoo abouts stocks traded on the Brasilian Stock Exchange.

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

       This module provides both the "brasil" and "yahoo_brasil" fetch methods.  You should use the "brasil" method if you wish to allow failovers
       to other sources, and "yahoo_brasil" 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://br.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 Brasil, http://br.finance.yahoo.com/

       Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Base

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