I just fiddled around a bit to find out how to download the latest GitHub release via the command line. Turns out that GitHub doesn’t provide a universal download URL to release binaries like it does for the release browser page itself. The latest release page can always be reached via https://github.com/ORGANIZATION/REPO/releases/latest, e.g. https://github.com/gvenzl/csv2db/releases/latest. Unfortunately that is not true for the binaries, which are available under https://github.com/ORGANIZATION/REPO/archive/RELEASE_TAG.zip and https://github.com/ORGANIZATION/REPO/archive/RELEASE_TAG.tar.gz but not under something generic like https://github.com/ORGANIZATION/REPO/archive/latest.zip and https://github.com/ORGANIZATION/REPO/archive/latest.tar.gz

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