The installation of the program is very simple. Download the program, then, compile from source.

       $ ./configure
       $ make
       $ make install
  

Once stock is installed, it is very easy to use. For example, to get the current stock price for RedHat execute the following command.

 $ stock rhat
"RHAT",22.68,"6/29/2006","1:12pm",-2.33,23.10,23.10,21.88,18198956

The following example shows how to get 10 days of rhat stock data.

$ stock rhat -H `date -d '-10 day' '+%m%d%Y'` (stock: rhat, date: 06192006) Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume,Adj. Close* 28-Jun-06,25.49,25.50,24.54,25.01,6438900,25.01 27-Jun-06,26.09,26.48,25.21,25.34,2591600,25.34 26-Jun-06,26.70,26.70,25.92,26.18,2927100,26.18 23-Jun-06,25.94,26.92,25.85,26.67,2790100,26.67 22-Jun-06,25.92,26.16,25.39,26.14,2026100,26.14 21-Jun-06,25.05,26.44,24.86,26.02,3400900,26.02 20-Jun-06,25.47,25.99,24.96,24.97,2221500,24.97 19-Jun-06,25.93,26.30,25.19,25.53,2889100,25.53

It's also possible to get multiple stock listings.

$ stock rhat,msft,intl "RHAT",22.5882,"6/29/2006","1:47pm",-2.4218,23.10,23.10,21.88,18799032 "MSFT",23.31,"6/29/2006","1:47pm",+0.15,23.32,23.56,23.28,45701060 "INTL",21.05,"6/29/2006","1:44pm",-0.05,21.14,21.29,21.00,60571