- 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 -
@yaneony That’s kinda spiffy to help people that can't write match expressions for
grep
come up with something useful, but it would be cooler if the UI gave out a shell command with the appropriate way to get the original URL rather than bouncing everybody’s downloads through a 3rd party service!