ChatGPT produced Bash shell script to display stock tickers every 10 seconds

Because I have a putty terminal running on my PC most every day (mostly sitting there doing nothing, waiting for a command,) I thought I’d put that open terminal to use and have it display stock tickers. So I asked ChatGPT to create a bash shell script that display a ticker and it’s price from the internet. I am not a good programmer/developer, and I can barely write a few scripts, but by using ChatGPT I was able to produce what I wanted in a short amount of time. Below is the script that it produced:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e

LANG=C
LC_NUMERIC=C

SYMBOLS=("$@")

if ! $(type jq > /dev/null 2>&1); then
  echo "'jq' is not in the PATH. (See: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)"
  exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$SYMBOLS" ]; then
  echo "Usage: ./ticker.sh AAPL MSFT GOOG BTC-USD"
  exit
fi

FIELDS=(symbol marketState regularMarketPrice regularMarketChange regularMarketChangePercent \
  preMarketPrice preMarketChange preMarketChangePercent postMarketPrice postMarketChange postMarketChangePercent)
API_ENDPOINT="https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v6/finance/quote?lang=en-US&region=US&corsDomain=finance.yahoo.com"

if [ -z "$NO_COLOR" ]; then
  : "${COLOR_BOLD:=\e[1;37m}"
  : "${COLOR_GREEN:=\e[32m}"
  : "${COLOR_RED:=\e[31m}"
  : "${COLOR_RESET:=\e[00m}"
fi

symbols=$(IFS=,; echo "${SYMBOLS[*]}")
fields=$(IFS=,; echo "${FIELDS[*]}")

results=$(curl --silent "$API_ENDPOINT&fields=$fields&symbols=$symbols" \
  | jq '.quoteResponse .result')

query () {
  echo $results | jq -r ".[] | select(.symbol == \"$1\") | .$2"
}

for symbol in $(IFS=' '; echo "${SYMBOLS[*]}" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'); do
  marketState="$(query $symbol 'marketState')"

  if [ -z $marketState ]; then
    printf 'No results for symbol "%s"\n' $symbol
    continue
  fi

  preMarketChange="$(query $symbol 'preMarketChange')"
  postMarketChange="$(query $symbol 'postMarketChange')"

  if [ $marketState == "PRE" ] \
    && [ $preMarketChange != "0" ] \
    && [ $preMarketChange != "null" ]; then
    nonRegularMarketSign='*'
    price=$(query $symbol 'preMarketPrice')
    diff=$preMarketChange
    percent=$(query $symbol 'preMarketChangePercent')
  elif [ $marketState != "REGULAR" ] \
    && [ $postMarketChange != "0" ] \
    && [ $postMarketChange != "null" ]; then
    nonRegularMarketSign='*'
    price=$(query $symbol 'postMarketPrice')
    diff=$postMarketChange
    percent=$(query $symbol 'postMarketChangePercent')
  else
    nonRegularMarketSign=''
    price=$(query $symbol 'regularMarketPrice')
    diff=$(query $symbol 'regularMarketChange')
    percent=$(query $symbol 'regularMarketChangePercent')
  fi

  if [ "$diff" == "0" ] || [ "$diff" == "0.0" ]; then
    color=
  elif ( echo "$diff" | grep -q ^- ); then
    color=$COLOR_RED
  else
    color=$COLOR_GREEN
  fi

  if [ "$price" != "null" ]; then
    printf "%-10s$COLOR_BOLD%8.2f$COLOR_RESET" $symbol $price
    printf "$color%10.2f%12s$COLOR_RESET" $diff $(printf "(%.2f%%)" $percent)
    printf " %s\n" "$nonRegularMarketSign"
  fi
done

This produced the following, for example:

This works well, however I want the script to display a number of different tickers and have the data refresh every 10 seconds. The next script produced is the following ticker_loop.sh. I added my tickers

#!/bin/bash

while true; do
    clear
    ./ticker.sh PLTR SOFI HIMS ARKK AHT QYLD MSFT ONON
    sleep 10
done

This is what I was looking for! So I simply had to modify both to run as executible / binary files. To do so, use the command:

chmod +x ticker_loop.sh

Lastly, run the script with the command ./ticker_loop.sh

Bash shell script to query a domain name using dig without the any flag

How do I get all of the DNS records for a domain using the dig command in only “Answer Section” (+answer) format? The command should return A, MX, NS, TXT, SOA and CNAME records.

Normally using the “any” flag, we would get all of this information at once, however, when attempting to run a dig command with the ‘any’ switch, we do not get the DNS records we want:

dig jasoncoltrin.com any

The above command returns an answer section with only: “RFC8428” “”

According to chatgpt, this means that the ‘any’ query type is not guaranteed to return all the records for a given name, and some DNS servers may choose to return an empty answer instead. This is done to improve the performance and security of the DNS system.

Still, I want to have a single command to get the most information at once, and the following command does so, however, writing the command is impractical:

dig +noall +answer +multi jasoncoltrin.com A jasoncoltrin.com MX jasoncoltrin.com NS jasoncoltrin.com TXT jasoncoltrin.com SOA jasoncoltrin.com CNAME

I also tried the following with no luck:

dig +noall +answer jasoncoltrin.com A,MX,NS,TXT

This only returned the A records.

So instead, we can use a bash script to create a $domain variable, and have the script use the ‘read’ command to prompt us for the domain name:

#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter the domain name: " domain

dig +noall +answer +multi $domain A $domain MX $domain NS $domain TXT $domain SOA $domain CNAME

To write the script, do the following:

vi digdomain.sh

(insert) > copy/paste script > (Escape) > :wq

Then make the script executable with the command:

chmod +x digdomain.sh

Run the command using the ./ prefix:

./digdomain.sh

When we run the script, we’re prompted for the domain name, then the result is most of the information we want in an easy-to-read format:

jason@ubuntu0:~$ ./digdomain.sh
Enter the domain name: jasoncoltrin.com
jasoncoltrin.com.       118 IN A 172.67.196.181
jasoncoltrin.com.       118 IN A 104.21.44.69
jasoncoltrin.com.       1854 IN MX 10 mailstore1.secureserver.net.
jasoncoltrin.com.       1854 IN MX 0 smtp.secureserver.net.
jasoncoltrin.com.       5652 IN NS daisy.ns.cloudflare.com.
jasoncoltrin.com.       5652 IN NS lee.ns.cloudflare.com.
jasoncoltrin.com.       300 IN TXT "Currently located in a black hole\" \"Likely to be eaten by a grue"
jasoncoltrin.com.       300 IN TXT "google-site-verification=key"
jasoncoltrin.com.       300 IN TXT "google-site-verification=key"
jasoncoltrin.com.       2052 IN SOA daisy.ns.cloudflare.com. dns.cloudflare.com. (
                                2305113011 ; serial
                                10000      ; refresh (2 hours 46 minutes 40 seconds)
                                2400       ; retry (40 minutes)
                                604800     ; expire (1 week)
                                3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
                                )

This made me happy because I had forgotten about my easter egg TXT record. 🙂