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  • Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
  • Use grep to find the line containing file URL
  • Use cut and tr to extract the URL
  • Use wget to download it (timestamp check --timestamping)
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*zip" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget --timestamping -v -i -
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