Directly update to newest ziglang binary

updatezig.sh

#!/bin/sh
# requires sh, coreutils, curl, wget, jq, tar

# assumes ~/bin is in PATH
# zig tarball will be placed in ~/bin/zig-master/zig-commithash
# and the zig binary from there symlinked to ~/bin/zig

cd ~/bin
echo "deleting old symlink"
rm zig
echo "deleting old directory"
rm -rf zig-master
echo "downloading..."
mkdir zig-master
wget -O zig.tar.xz $(curl https://ziglang.org/download/index.json | jq -r ".master.\"x86_64-linux\".tarball")
echo "unpacking..."
tar -xvf zig.tar.xz -C zig-master
echo "deleting tarball"
rm zig.tar.xz
echo "creating symlink"
ln -s $(find zig-master/ -maxdepth 2 -name zig) zig
echo "done."⏎