Simple shellscript (bash/sh/zsh) to download latest release of a github repository

download_latest_github_release_shell_script

#!/usr/bin/env zsh bash sh
# @author mko-x<
if [ "$1" = "-h" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then
  echo "# Download Latest Github Release\n"
  echo "# Description: Simply download any latest Github releases of a desired repository."
  echo "# Parameter 1: Github repository owner/user\n"
  echo "# Parameter 2: Github repository name\n"
  echo "# \n"
fi

# Get owner from call arg 1, set to user env var if empty
ARG_1_OWNER="${1:-$USER}"
TARGET_OWNER="${TARGET_OWNER:-$ARG_1_OWNER}"

ARG_2_REPO="${2:-$USER}"
TARGET_REPO="${TARGET_REPO:-$ARG_2_REPO}"

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$TARGET_OWNER/TARGET_REPO/releases/latest \
| grep 'browser_download_url.*deb' \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget -qi -