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May 20, 2017 21:33
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Shell script to download a github project's latest release
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| #!/bin/sh | |
| # Download a github project's latest release | |
| # $1: username/repo | |
| # $2: regex to match download file | |
| # example: ./gh-download-latest atom/atom gz | |
| repo=$1 | |
| regex=${2:-gz} | |
| wget -qO- https://api.github.com/repos/$repo/releases/latest | \ | |
| awk -v regex="$regex" -F '"' '/browser_download_url/ && match($4, regex) { print $4 }' | \ | |
| xargs wget |
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