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Created May 20, 2017 21:33
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  1. mnewt created this gist May 20, 2017.
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    #!/bin/sh
    # Download a github project's latest release
    # $1: username/repo
    # $2: regex to match download file
    # example: ./gh-download-latest atom/atom gz

    repo=$1
    regex=${2:-gz}

    wget -qO- https://api.github.com/repos/$repo/releases/latest | \
    awk -v regex="$regex" -F '"' '/browser_download_url/ && match($4, regex) { print $4 }' | \
    xargs wget