Take a look at how Isaac's nave does it:
https://github.com/isaacs/nave/blob/master/nave.sh

All it needs is egrep, curl, sort, tail and sed.

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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Paul J R <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Im writing an lxc container template for to running node app's and
> depending on the options the template script may try to download the latest
> binary version of nodejs. Currently im doing this by hitting
> http://www.nodejs.org/dist/latest/ and attempting to find the appropriate
> binary using a combo of wget/grep/sed, but parsing html this way isnt
> generally a great idea and im trying to keep the dependencies the template
> introduces to a minimum (i.e. without using perl/python/php or nodejs
> itself or even depending on the distro having nodejs). Looking around (and
> asking in irc) I couldn't really find anything that might simplify the
> request (i.e. a link like 
> http://www.nodejs.org/dist/<http://www.nodejs.org/dist/latest/>linux/64/latest.tar.gz
> would be handy) and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or knows
> of a simple way of getting a link to the latest nodejs binary based on
> platform/architecture?
>
> Regards, PJR
>
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