Script to get the latest linux version of blender

getBlender.sh

# Download the latest version of Blender for linux if not already in folder
# 2020-06-29
baseUrl=https://download.blender.org/release/

latest=$( curl -s $baseUrl \
 | egrep "^<a" \
 | sed -re 's/^[^"]+"([^"]+)">[^>]+>\s+([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([0-9]+).+/\4-\3-\2 \1/' \
 -e 's/-Jan-/-01-/' \
 -e 's/-Feb-/-02-/' \
 -e 's/-Mar-/-03-/' \
 -e 's/-Apr-/-04-/' \
 -e 's/-May-/-05-/' \
 -e 's/-Jun-/-06-/' \
 -e 's/-Jul-/-07-/' \
 -e 's/-Aug-/-08-/' \
 -e 's/-Sep-/-09-/' \
 -e 's/-Oct-/-10-/' \
 -e 's/-Nov-/-11-/' \
 -e 's/-Dec-/-12-/' \
 | sort -n | tail -n 1 \
 | sed -re 's/\S+\s(.+)/\1/' )
 
latestUrl="$baseUrl$latest"

echo looking in $latestUrl

latest=$( curl -s $latestUrl \
 | egrep "^<a" \
 | egrep -i "linux" \
 | sed -re 's/^[^"]+"([^"]+)">[^>]+>\s+([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([0-9]+).+/\4-\3-\2 \1/' \
 -e 's/-Jan-/-01-/' \
 -e 's/-Feb-/-02-/' \
 -e 's/-Mar-/-03-/' \
 -e 's/-Apr-/-04-/' \
 -e 's/-May-/-05-/' \
 -e 's/-Jun-/-06-/' \
 -e 's/-Jul-/-07-/' \
 -e 's/-Aug-/-08-/' \
 -e 's/-Sep-/-09-/' \
 -e 's/-Oct-/-10-/' \
 -e 's/-Nov-/-11-/' \
 -e 's/-Dec-/-12-/' \
 | sort -n | tail -n 1 \
 | sed -re 's/\S+\s(.+)/\1/' )
 
latestUrl="$latestUrl$latest"

echo looking at $latestUrl

if [ ! -f "$latest" ]; then
    wget "$latestUrl"
    echo "You probably want to do the following now"
    echo "tar xvf $latest"
    blender=$(echo $latest | sed -re 's/\.tar.+$//')
    current=$(pwd)
    echo "ln -sf ${current}/${blender}/blender /usr/bin/blender"
else
    echo "Congratulations! you already have what I have deemed to be the latest version of Blender for Linux"
    ls -l --color=always /usr/bin/blender
fi