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+# functions
+BASEPATH=/dabo/htdocs
+for bashfunc in $(find ${BASEPATH}/../functions -type f -name "*.sh")
+do
+  . "$bashfunc"
+done
+. /etc/bash/gaboshlib.include
+
+# vars
+export LANGUAGE="en_US"
+g_tries=13
+g_tries_delay=23
+g_wget_opts="--timeout 10 --tries=2 --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36'"
+
+# prepare directories
+mkdir -p ${BASEPATH}/botdata/asset-histories
+mkdir -p ${BASEPATH}/botdata/trade-histories
+cd ${BASEPATH}/botdata
+