btc is a cli tool for fetching the latest bitcoin (BTC) rate from CoinDesk

No binaries yet, but you can easily fetch btc if you have Go installed:

go get github.com/praffn/btc

• -c <CODE>
  Where CODE is a valid ISO 4217 currency code and is in CoinDesk's list of supported currencies.

  Set the currency to show the BTC rate. Defaults to USD. Automatically uppercases value so "dkk" is equivalent to "DKK"

• -x <AMOUNT>
  Where amount is a float

  If set, the price for AMOUNT of Bitcoin will be shown (in chosen currency)

  For example btc -c dkk -x 0.3 will show the price for 0.3 BTC in DKK

• -d
  Shows the difference since yesterday in percentages. On by default. To disable: -d=0 or -d=false

• -s
  If toggled ONLY the float value of a single Bitcoin will be printed to stdout. All flags are ignored expect -c and -l. Useful for piping the result.

• -l
  If set, will print log information. Only useful for debuggin purposes

• -v
  If set, will print version information and terminate

• -h
  Show help

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