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One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo.md
  • 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
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 -
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antofthy commented Jan 16, 2026 •
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@eabase
sed is not implemented equally across platforms (x-platform = "cross platform")...
It also depends on your bash and sh options via (set, shopt)...

First I ever heard of bash and sh options effecting any command that isn't a builtin to bash and sh (apart from command parsing that is). I'm pretty good with shell (35+ years experience)... Please enlighten!

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