moco-cli

Money Converter on the CLI

Features

• Quick and Simple
• Standalone (only bash, curl and bc)
• Supports 166 currencies (Bitcoin, gold and silver prices included)

Installation

Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/Besnn/moco-cli

Add user permission with sudo chmod u+x moco-cli/moco

When you type ls && ls moco-cli you should have something like this:

Setting PATH

Linux

Open you .bashrc now: nano ~/.bashrc

Add export PATH=<absolute_directory_of_script>:$PATH (no angle brackets)

You can get the absolute path with realpath <directory>/moco-cli
If that doesn't work try echo $(pwd) while inside moco-cli.

Finally, type source ~/.bashrc.

MacOS

Open your paths file with nano /etc/paths.

Add there the full path of the script.

Usage

Syntax is: moco <amount> <from_currency> <to_currency> [<to_currency>]
You can set an alias for moco by adding alias <alias>="moco" in your .bashrc.

The script can accommodate a maximum of one extra to-currency as that is the limit of the free API version.

If you encounter any problems, make sure to get your own API key
and put it in the API_KEY variable in the beginning of the script.

Type moco help, moco -h, moco -l or similarly to list supported currencies.

If you cannot remember the trigram for your currency, use either moco find <currency> or moco give <currency>:

moco give dollar
# or you can use the | (or) operator (provided it's within quotes)
moco find "euro|lira|peso"
moco give 'lir|phil' # supports partial names

Make sure to change MOCO_DIR variable inside script in order for the above functionalities to work.