Automatically download latest ExifTool and add it to the PATH on DSM

getExifToolDSM.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Function to get the latest version from the ExifTool website
get_latest_version() {
  local latest_version=$(curl -s "https://exiftool.org/history.html" | grep -m 1 -oP "<a name='v\K[.0-9]+?(?='>)")
  echo "$latest_version"
}

# Get the latest version
LATEST_VERSION=$(get_latest_version)

if [ -z "$LATEST_VERSION" ]; then
  echo "Error: Failed to get the latest version of ExifTool."
  exit 1
fi

# Set the URL for the latest version of ExifTool
EXIFTOOL_URL="https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-$LATEST_VERSION.tar.gz"

# Set the filename for the downloaded tar.gz file
IMAGE_NAME="Image-ExifTool-$LATEST_VERSION"
TAR_FILENAME="$IMAGE_NAME.tar.gz"
SHARE_PATH="/usr/share/applications"

# Download the latest version of ExifTool
echo "Downloading the latest version $LATEST_VERSION of ExifTool..."
wget "$EXIFTOOL_URL" -O "$TAR_FILENAME"

# Check if the download was successful
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Download completed successfully."

  # Extract the tar.gz file
  echo "Extracting the contents of $TAR_FILENAME..."
  tar -xzf "$TAR_FILENAME"

  # Clean up the downloaded tar.gz file
  rm "$TAR_FILENAME"

  mv $IMAGE_NAME ExifTool
  mkdir -p "$SHARE_PATH"
  mv ./ExifTool "$SHARE_PATH"
  echo "export PATH=\$PATH:$SHARE_PATH/ExifTool" >> /etc/profile

  echo "ExifTool $LATEST_VERSION has been downloaded and extracted to the $SHARE_PATH directory and added to the \$PATH."
else
  echo "Error: Failed to download ExifTool."
fi