GnuCash ships with Helper Scripts which make it easier to work with
Finance::Quote. They are: gnc-fq-check, gnc-fq-dump, gnc-fq-helper, and
gnc-fq-update. Collectively, call them gc-fq-* .
When running these Helper Scripts from a command prompt on MacOS and
Linux, should they invoked as commands:
% gnc-fq-check
Or should they be invoked as an argument to a perl command:
% perl gnc-fq-check
?
The wiki page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Helper_Scripts
says, pretty clearly, the former:
"While unixoid operating systems use a shebang (#!) to associate perl
scripts with the Perl interpreter, others, e.g. Windows, will fail….
C:\> gnc-fq-check [fails]…
so use the following: … Prefix any gnc-fq-xxx perl script command with
perl and a space: …
perl gnc-fq-check …"
The perl invocation is described as a workaround needed on Windows
because the shebang doesn't work. All the other examples show invocation
as a command, e.g.
$ gnc-fq-check
This makes a difference on Unixoid systems when there are multiple Perl
installations. Presumably command invocation of the helper scripts will
always obey the shebang and thus always run the same Perl installation.
But invocation as an argument to "perl" will run whichever Perl
installation the environment dictates.
Am I correct in guessing that GnuCash 4.5 internally invokes these
scripts (maybe just gnc-fq-helper) as an argument to a perl command?
If so, should the wiki page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes
use the same invocation?
Best regards,
—Jim DeLaHunt
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