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Stock Quotes on your Desktop with Conky

I wrote another script today to save me from needing to open up a browser.
The old process for stock quotes was, go to yahoo, type in each stock, get the price.
The new process involves only directing my attention to the bottom right corner of my desktop. All stocks of interest are lined up inside my conky. They auto refresh every 2 minutes for me. I can see the current value, what it opened at, and the change.

If you don’t know what conky is click here for my conky tutorial.

To get it working, download the script and add the following line to your .conkyrc
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