- 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 -
@necros2k7
Checkout my previous answer:
https://gist.github.com/steinwaywhw/a4cd19cda655b8249d908261a62687f8?permalink_comment_id=3668287#gistcomment-3668287