- 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 -
My short one line for latest DBeaver-ce.
Shorten url https://api.github.com/repos/dbeaver/dbeaver/releases/latest whith https://git.io
curl -Ls
follow a location silentlygrep -wo
print the exactlywget -qi
download silentlywhich gives:
curl -Ls https://git.io/Jkk0N | grep -wo "https.*amd64.deb" | wget -qi -