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| # http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/39587/view-estimated-size-of-github-repository-before-cloning | |
| # tested on macOS | |
| echo https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git | perl -ne 'print $1 if m!([^/]+/[^/]+?)(?:\.git)?$!' | xargs -I{} curl -s -k https://api.github.com/repos/'{}' | grep size | |
| # output: | |
| # "size": 1746294, |
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curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/torvalds/linux | jq '.size' | numfmt --to=iec --from-unit=1024