- 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 -
This is a programmatic discussion for downloading the file(s). You cant wget/curl get the file because of links and internet things. Other issues are that the file name may change, the version, or the file you may need for your OS may change etc.