- 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 -
thanks @Frikster ! here is a modified version for getting the newest tag from a repository and unpack it immediately:
curl https://api.github.com/repos/<USER>/<REPO>/tags | grep "tarball_url" | grep -Eo 'https://[^\"]*' | sed -n '1p' | xargs wget -O - | tar -xz