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# to print High/Low/Last price from mtgox

# to get json_pp:
# described: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/json_pp.1p.html
# or cpan: http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-PP-2.27103/bin/json_pp
# sudo apt-get install libjson-perl
# or use cpan

alias mtgox='curl -s -o - http://data.mtgox.com/api/2/BTCUSD/money/ticker'

function btc() { echo -n "Last, High, Low:    "; mtgox | json_pp | grep -A5 "high\|low\|last\"" | grep y_s | sed -e 's/[ ]*//g' | sed -e 's/\"display_short\"//g' | tr -d "\n" ; echo "" ;}

Thank you for json_pp. I did not know about this. Here's a slightly more efficient sed statement: curl -s -o - http://data.mtgox.com/api/2/BTCUSD/money/ticker | json_pp 2> /dev/null | grep -A5 "high|low|last"" | grep y_s | sed 's/.$([0-9.])".*/$\1/;' | paste - - -