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How can download historical version of curl in zip file format with shell command?

Get the latest version with git clone:

git clone  https://github.com/curl/curl.git

Check the version:

cd  curl
git log  #list the first 3 lines
commit def99e011e88d61a4157863537378ca9c59a79e0 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Stefan Eissing <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jun 26 11:51:43 2023 +0200   

git describe  def99e011e88d61a4157863537378ca9c59a79e0
curl-8_1_2-143-gdef99e011

We see that the version is curl-8_1_2-143.
Download the version 8_1_1 with browser:

https://github.com/curl/curl/releases

Click on curl-8.1.1.zip and save,i got the historical version of curl-8_1_1 in zip file.

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How can download historical version of curl in zip file format with shell command then?
The following shell command is not the way i wanted:

url="https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-2e65be/569041/b283ef2d-8e6a-478c-97c1-00ccc68a0173?X-Amz-Algorithm=\
AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20230709%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20230709T054141Z&X-Amz-Expires=\
300&X-Amz-Signature=18425539998f0f6c17ac2f2a38a1e56573a7217f8bb87bf568549c43d5011a60&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=512610&key_id=0&\
repo_id=569041&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dcurl-8.1.1.zip&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream"
wget  $url -O curl.zip
Solution

  • You already did the clone, check out any version you want. git checkout curl-8_1_1

    Or if you really really want the .zip, git archive curl-8_1_1 -o curl-8_1_1.zip