Re: [PLUG] wget options to retrieve file from github

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:

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Ah, clever, Thanks! I'll have to experiment.
I have been burned in the past by tar or zip files that
dumped everything in the PWD thereby creating an immediate
cleanup task :-( Maybe that's never true for github though?

Eric

On 06/11/2013 02:02 PM, Russ Thompson wrote:
> I've always done something along these lines, unless you prefer the zip format.
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> wget -L https://github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/archive/master.tar.gz -O - | tar xzv
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Douglas Muth <doug.muth@gmail.com <mailto:doug.muth@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> It looks like that zipfile name is sent in the Location: header of the response. Check this out:
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> $ curl -I https://github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/zipball/master 2>/dev/null |grep Location: Location: https://codeload.github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/legacy.zip/master
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> If that zipfile name is in the same location in every response (is it?), you could grab it like this:
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> $ curl -I https://github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/zipball/master 2>/dev/null |grep Location: |cut -d/ -f6 legacy.zip
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> Putting it all together:
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> wget -O `curl -I https://github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/zipball/master 2>/dev/null |grep Location: |cut -d/ -f6` https://github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/zipball/master
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> -- Doug
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> -- Douglas T. Muth * Philadelphia, PA, USA http://www.dmuth.org/
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org <mailto:eric@lucii.org>> wrote:
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> Does anyone know if there is a way to use wget to download a file and have it use the actual file name instead of the part after the last slash? For example, this URL:
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> https://github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/zipball/master
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> I know that I can use -O filename.zip to rename the download file but I have no idea what the file should be named (other than maybe "superfish".) I can guess it's a zip file from the URL element "zipball".
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> When I do this:
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> wget --spider https://github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/zipball/master
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> Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists. --2013-06-11 10:36:22-- https://github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/zipball/master Resolving github.com... 204.232.175.90 Connecting to github.com <http://github.com>|204.232.175.90|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://codeload.github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/legacy.zip/master [following] Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists. --2013-06-11 10:36:22-- https://codeload.github.com/mehrpadin/Superfish-for-Drupal/legacy.zip/master Resolving codeload.github.com... 204.232.175.86 Connecting to codeload.github.com <http://codeload.github.com>|204.232.175.86|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 55979 (55K) [application/zip] Remote file exists.
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> ...I see that there is a sort-of actual filename in the URL: legacy.zip
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> Any hints/tips/tricks/cheat codes/insights would be appreciated,
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> Oops, stumbled upon this:
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> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliget/
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> Very clever program - I think I'll use it even if I have to switch back to FireFox sometimes.
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