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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 \" \

github recently switched to an https scheme as the default for cloning repos. as a side effect you may suddenly be prompted for a 'Username' and 'Password' when you push where, previously, you were able to do so without typing in credentials. the solution is to cause git to cache https credentials which is easy, since git uses curl under the covers

in your home directory create a file called '.netrc', for example

/Users/ahoward/.netrc

in it put these contents

	# https://superuser.com/a/1434648

	Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime
	$asTaskGeneric = ([System.WindowsRuntimeSystemExtensions].GetMethods() \| ? { $_.Name -eq 'AsTask' -and $_.GetParameters().Count -eq 1 -and $_.GetParameters()[0].ParameterType.Name -eq 'IAsyncOperation`1' })[0]

	Function Await($WinRtTask, $ResultType) {
	$asTask = $asTaskGeneric.MakeGenericMethod($ResultType)
	$netTask = $asTask.Invoke($null, @($WinRtTask))
	$netTask.Wait(-1) \| Out-Null
	$netTask.Result

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# simple bash script to simulate JavaScript's setInterval (blocking)
	#
	# Author: Dave Eddy <[email protected]>
	# Date: September 27, 2014
	# License: MIT

	setInterval() {
	local func=$1