- Use
curl
to get the JSON response for the latest release - Use
grep
to find the line containing file URL - Use
cut
andtr
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 \" \
| wget -qi -
I needed something one liner with no external tools but also cross platform this works:
VERSION=$(curl -s "https://github.com/cloudposse/tfmask/releases/latest/download" 2>&1 | sed "s/^.*download\/\([^\"]*\).*/\1/")
For those using this in a docker to download files, here's a nice snippet which can handle either setting the version manually via build argument or if blank will auto find the latest version: