Shell script to extract the exchange rates from BNR (Romania)

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Here is a simple script to get the exchange rates from www.bnro.ro/nbrfxrates.xml   #!/bin/bash # clear the screen clear # display an info message echo "+------------------------------+" echo "|        BNR exchange   |" echo "+------------------------------+" # check for parameters if [ $# -ne 1 ] then echo "Usage: $0 eur  ...

How to create a simple shell script

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Here is a simple example of creating and running (executing) a shell script. This script will display the numbers from 1 to 10. Creating the script: With any text editor (Gedit for Gnome, Kate for KDE, nano): #/bin/bash for ((i = 1; i