- 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 -
Better alternative that will work even if the json is pretty or not:
Using jq -c to turn the json compact and this is what happens:
Old:
Alternative:
Fedora 40 recently changed wget for wget2, and this causes github the send the json compact breaking scripts that were parsing it with grep.
I use gron when it is available, otherwise the sed tricks should work most of the time.