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@steinwaywhw
steinwaywhw / One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo.md
Last active May 22, 2024 10:23
One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo
  • Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
  • Use grep to find the line containing file URL
  • Use cut and tr to extract the URL
  • Use wget to download it
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
@bahamas10
bahamas10 / setInterval.bash
Last active August 7, 2023 09:04
setInterval in bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# simple bash script to simulate JavaScript's setInterval (blocking)
#
# Author: Dave Eddy <dave@daveeddy.com>
# Date: September 27, 2014
# License: MIT
setInterval() {
local func=$1
@madrobby
madrobby / gist:9476733
Created March 10, 2014 23:34
Download a single file from a private GitHub repo. You'll need an access token as described in this GitHub Help article: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use
curl -H 'Authorization: token INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE' -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw' -O -L https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/contents/path
@ahoward
ahoward / caching-https-creds.markdown
Created June 6, 2012 21:42
Fix Username/Password prompting for github repos cloned via https scheme

github recently switched to an https scheme as the default for cloning repos. as a side effect you may suddenly be prompted for a 'Username' and 'Password' when you push where, previously, you were able to do so without typing in credentials. the solution is to cause git to cache https credentials which is easy, since git uses curl under the covers

in your home directory create a file called '.netrc', for example

/Users/ahoward/.netrc

in it put these contents