Comments on: NASDAQ or S&P500 Components List: How to Download it from Yahoo! Finance http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2010/05/nasdaq-or-sp500-components-list-how-to-download-it-from-yahoo-finance/ Tech, ideas, and cool stuff that go through my head every day... Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:19:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2010/05/nasdaq-or-sp500-components-list-how-to-download-it-from-yahoo-finance/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Richard Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:02:27 +0000 http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/?p=401#comment-302 Hi Guy, this code is written in "bash", which stands for "Bourne Again Shell". Proffered by GNU, it is a basic scripting language on *nix-styled platforms (Linux, Unix, Solaris, OS X...), conceptually somewhat like Windows batch files. Alessio's program executes another program called wget, which is useful for downloading singe files, or entire subsections of a web or ftp site. For more info, see references below. Hope this helps, Richard bash - http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ wget - http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ Hi Guy, this code is written in “bash”, which stands for “Bourne Again Shell”. Proffered by GNU, it is a basic scripting language on *nix-styled platforms (Linux, Unix, Solaris, OS X…), conceptually somewhat like Windows batch files.

Alessio’s program executes another program called wget, which is useful for downloading singe files, or entire subsections of a web or ftp site. For more info, see references below.

Hope this helps,

Richard

bash – http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
wget – http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

]]> By: Guy http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2010/05/nasdaq-or-sp500-components-list-how-to-download-it-from-yahoo-finance/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Guy Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:45:43 +0000 http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/?p=401#comment-291 Hi Alessio, That is very interesting. My code knowledge is limited to Excel VBA and to basic R, and the simplicity of the code you posted is very appealing. Can I ask a non-technologist's question? What language is it written in, and what platform(s) will it run in? Thanks, Guy Hi Alessio,

That is very interesting. My code knowledge is limited to Excel VBA and to basic R, and the simplicity of the code you posted is very appealing.

Can I ask a non-technologist’s question? What language is it written in, and what platform(s) will it run in? Thanks,

Guy

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