- 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 -
@solbu well…. There are mechanisms to create releases via the REST api. I wrote a little github-maven-plug-in that currently supports creating draft releases, uploading any binaries needed, and pushing release notes. It could easily be extended to publish the release…