Use wget to download newest version of file
 

Hello,

I made a script to automate a linux install with all packages and configurations for a security server at work.

Everything works well, but I would like to tweak it to download the newest version of a proprietary package.

The problem I'm having is that the package provider makes minor updates frequently, and the revision number of the package changes. The way I am currently using "wget" is very simple, and it doesn't download unless I provide the complete name of the package:

What would you recommend to download the newest revision when the script runs? Can you somehow use a wildcard in wget, then run a find on everything that was downloaded?(wildcard didn't work when I tried it)

If you can get this via FTP, wget supports wildcards. Not via http, however.

• look at wget documentation. maybe it's possible to just go for the newest file?
• consider using other download tool like curl?
• get the name of the newest version by parsing some web content, then tell wget to download that. can be automated in a script.

i think i like the last option best :D

a little late for thanks, but thank you!

Curl does pretty much what I want, and it can follow re-directs.