- 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 -
Why on Earth would you use two different tools for the same task and put
curl
andwget
in the same script/1-liner ?Why fiddling with
grep
/tr
/cut
when the only reliable JSON parsing tool isjq
?This is from my own stuff (different URL):
2 tools is better than 5 IMHO.
Adapting it to other needs is left to the keen reader. ;-)