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HHerst
Last edited Jan 8, 2019
Created on Jan 8, 2019

This example demonstrates a shell script that automates the download and extraction of the latest Linux 64-bit geckodriver release. It shows how to query the GitHub API for the newest release, parse the download URL using `sed`, and pipe the archive directly into `tar` for extraction. The script relies on `curl` to fetch the API metadata and `wget` to retrieve the tarball, providing a one-liner workflow for staying up-to-date with geckodriver binaries.

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