#!/bin/bash URL="https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html" # Get version number from tag name VERSION=$(curl -s -L "$URL" | grep -A1 'The current version of readline is' | grep -o -E '([0-9]\.[0-9]*)' | head -n1) # Get patch number PATCH=$(curl -s --list-only ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-${VERSION}-patches/ | grep -v '.sig' | wc -l) # Append patch number to version VERSION="${VERSION}.${PATCH}" echo "$VERSION"