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One liner to get latest stable version of node.js
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curl --insecure -# -sSL http://nodejs.org/dist/ | sed -n -E "s/.*([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+).*/\1/gp" | sort -u -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -t . | tail -n1
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For 2024:

NODE_VERSION=""; curl -sSL https://nodejs.org/download/release/ |  sed -E 's/<a.*>(v.*\..*\.[0-9]+\/)<\/a>.*/\1/g' |  grep "^v" | sed -E "s/v(.*)\//\1/g" | sort -u -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -t . | grep "^${NODE_VERSION}" | tail -n1

And you can pick the version of Node.js by setting the NODE_VERSION variable

NODE_VERSION="20"; curl -sSL https://nodejs.org/download/release/ |  sed -E 's/<a.*>(v.*\..*\.[0-9]+\/)<\/a>.*/\1/g' |  grep "^v" | sed -E "s/v(.*)\//\1/g" | sort -u -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -t . | grep "^${NODE_VERSION}" | tail -n1

NODE_VERSION="20.10"; curl -sSL https://nodejs.org/download/release/ |  sed -E 's/<a.*>(v.*\..*\.[0-9]+\/)<\/a>.*/\1/g' |  grep "^v" | sed -E "s/v(.*)\//\1/g" | sort -u -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -t . | grep "^${NODE_VERSION}" | tail -n1

(I'm not good at sed/regex so it does multiple passes, feel free to simplify this)

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