Pull a git module with sub modules without ssh permissions

gitclone

#!/bin/bash

# first extracting the repository name
rep_regex="\\/([^\\/]*)\\.git$"
if [[ $1 =~ $rep_regex ]]
then
    reponame="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
else
    echo "$1 doesn't match" >&2 # this could get noisy if there are a lot of non-matching files
    exit
fi

echo $reponame

rm -rf $reponame
git clone $1
cd $reponame
ls
sed -E "s/git@([^\:]+):/https:\/\/\1\//g" .gitmodules > .gitmodules1
mv .gitmodules1 .gitmodules
git submodule update --init --recursive