NAME

fqdb - Manage quote databases

SYNOPSIS

fqdb [options] command

DESCRIPTION

This script is the command-line interface to the Finance::QuoteDB module.

COMMANDS

createdb      Creates a new database
addstock      Add stocks to database
delstock      Remove stocks from a database
updatedb      Updates a database
backpopulate  Retrieves history quotes and put them in the database
getquote      Retrieves and outputs quotes from the database

OPTIONS

-h --help     Shows help
--dsn         Which database to use. Defaults to 'dbi:SQLite:fqdb.db'.
              format = 'dbi:$dbType:dbname=$dbname;host=$host;port=$port'
--dsnuser     Username if needed for dsn
--dsnpassword Password if needed for dsn
--market      Market from which stocks should be treated
--stocks      Stock list (comma separated) use [] to specify your own ID
              i.e. GOOG[GOOGLE]
--startdate   startdate for usage with backpopulate and getquote defaults to '1900-01-01'
--enddate     enddate for usage with backpopulate and getquote defaults to '' (today)
--overwrite   indicates if updates should overwrite previously saved data.
              Defaults to yes. Only works for backpopulate for now...
-v --version  Returns version number of Finance::QuoteDB

EXAMPLES

fqdb createdb --dsn='dbi:SQLite:quotes.db'

fqdb createdb --dsn='dbi:SQLite:dbname=quotes.db'

Creates a new database in the current directory called quotes.db of type SQLite.

fqdb updatedb --dsn='dbi:SQLite:quotes.db'

Updates the database quotes.db with new quotes if available.

license

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Erik Colson, all rights reserved.

This file is part of Finance::QuoteDB.

Finance::QuoteDB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Finance::QuoteDB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Finance::QuoteDB. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.