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May 8, 2018 13:11
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A super simple script to pull currency info from xe.com
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#!/bin/sh | |
UA="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1 Safari/605.1.15" | |
url="https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/" | |
amount="$1" | |
fromcur="$2" | |
tocur="$3" | |
if [ "$fromcur" == "" ]; then #Use default currencies | |
fromcur="ZAR" | |
tocur="GBP" | |
fi | |
if [ "$amount" == "-r" ]; then #Reverse default currencies | |
fromcur="GBP" | |
tocur="ZAR" | |
amount="$2" | |
fi | |
result=$(wget -U $UA $url/\?Amount\=$amount\&From\=$fromcur\&To\=$tocur -O - 2>/dev/null|grep -o 'uccResultAmount[^<]*'|cut -d\> -f2) | |
echo $fromcur $amount '->' $tocur $result |
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