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The Bitcoin Script. Currently supporting ticker with various currencies.
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" = "price" ]; then
currency=$([ "$2" = "" ] && echo "usd" || echo $2)
case $2 in
ltc)
pair="$2/usd"
;;
eur|*)
pair="btc/$currency"
;;
esac
echo "Fetching the current $pair price..."
case $2 in
eur)
price=$(wget -qO- https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/btceur/ | grep -E -o 'last": "[0-9.]+"' | grep -E -o '[0-9]+.[0-9]{2}')
price="$price EUR"
;;
ltc)
price=$(wget -qO- https://api.bitfinex.com/v1/pubticker/ltcusd | grep -E -o 'last_price":"[0-9.]+"' | grep -E -o '[0-9.]+')
price="\$$price"
;;
*)
price=$(wget -qO- https://api.bitfinex.com/v1/pubticker/btcusd | grep -E -o 'last_price":"[0-9.]+"' | grep -E -o '[0-9.]+')
price="\$$price"
;;
esac
if [[ $(which toilet) = "" ]]; then
echo $price
else
toilet -t -f bigascii12 $price
fi
else
echo "No argument provided."
fi
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