Finance::Quote is a Perl module which can be used to obtain stock information from various internet sources. I thought I’d rather share this code snippet as an example showing how easy it is to use, before I turn it into a bloatware with an SQL backend to compute average price per share and what not

So here is a simple snippet demonstrating how to get the price of a stock :
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If there’s a file installed on your disk for which you’d like to know what package provided it, you can use the equery command like below :
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