- 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 hat in the ring.
Technically two lines because I needed to use the version number both in the URL path and in the filename
Retrieve latest version using curl
returns
So strip it out (minus the carriage return):
returns
Attach to a variable and get annoyed when filename doesn't have a leading 'v'
This strips the leading
v
from the version numberNote
Doesn't handle different architectures but that would be the use of
uname -m
at the leastThanks for the inspo in this thread - really should be easier than this ...