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I've been using a script posted by @abaumgarner to install the most recent version of VLC that can be found here which has been working great for me until recently.



The variable that looks for the current version started returning ../ instead of the current version number. I made a couple of small changes to get the proper version number in case anyone else has run into the same issue.



Here's the line from the original script:



#!/bin/sh

vlc_version=`/usr/bin/curl --silent http://mirror.wdc1.us.leaseweb.net/videolan/vlc/last/macosx/ | grep vlc- | cut -d " -f 2 | awk '{printf("%s",$0); exit}' | cut -d . -f 1-3`


Which had to be modified to:



#!/bin/sh

vlc_version=`/usr/bin/curl --silent http://mirror.wdc1.us.leaseweb.net/videolan/vlc/last/macosx/ | grep vlc- | cut -d " -f 2 | awk '{printf("%s",$0);}' | cut -d . -f 1-6 | cut -c4-15`

Here's the script I use/created



#!/bin/bash



mkdir /tmp/downloads

cd /tmp/downloads



# Installing VLC Player

CurrentVLC=$(curl "http://get.videolan.org/vlc/last/macosx/" | grep .dmg | grep -v webplugin | grep -v md5 | grep -v sha1 | grep -v sha256 | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F ">" '{print $2}' | tr -d "</a")



curl -L -o vlc.dmg http://get.videolan.org/vlc/last/macosx/$CurrentVLC



hdiutil mount -nobrowse vlc.dmg -mountpoint /Volumes/vlc

rsync -vaz /Volumes/vlc/VLC.app/ /Applications/VLC.app

hdiutil unmount "/Volumes/vlc"

rm vlc.dmg

rm -rf /tmp/downloads



#Inspired from GetMacApps.com


It didn't need to be changed, so it MAY survive future changes. Also, I'm sure there's a way to do things than continuing to pipe those commands together.

There's an additional file format available - asc. So the CurrentVLC line needs to be updated like this...



curl "http://get.videolan.org/vlc/last/macosx/" | grep .dmg | grep -v webplugin | grep -v md5 | grep -v sha1 | grep -v sha256 | grep -v asc | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F ">" '{print $2}' | tr -d "</a"

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