Bash script on downloads page uses a command that is not installed on Mac

[focarroll]

• URL: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#macos
• Browser version: Google Chrome 88.0.4324.192
• Operating system: Mac OSX 10.15.7

By going to the link above, you can see the following code:

curl "https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/node-${VERSION:-$(wget -qO- https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/ | sed -nE 's|.*>node-(.*)\.pkg</a>.*|\1|p')}.pkg"

This bash script uses the command wget. However, Mac OS does not come with wget, meaning that this cannot be used.

[focarroll]

After some trial and error, I've found a possible solution for Mac users:

curl -O "https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/$(curl -s https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/ | grep "pkg" | cut -d'"' -f 2)"

[aldarmak]

Thanks a lot sir

[MrJithil]

Can I update it? @aldarmak

[zelma83]

"https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/node-${VERSION:-$(wget -qO- https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/ | sed -nE 's|.>node-(.).pkg.*|\1|p')}.pkg" > "$HOME/Downloads/node-latest.pkg" && sudo installer -store -pkg "$HOME/Downloads/node-latest.pkg" -target "/"

[mwenku]

is this issue still open ?

[AugustinMauroy]

the command don't refers to the issue is no longer present on the site, so you need to check whether it's still relevant.

EDIT: wget still not on macOS. And command still have wget

[focarroll]

Finally