From 33dbe1e184aeee249c49e279f36affc67dc12c75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rajat404 <404rajat@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 14:10:41 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Use jq in installation script if it exists on the machine

---
 scripts/rawinstall.sh | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/rawinstall.sh b/scripts/rawinstall.sh
index b1edc84..2aaf34e 100755
--- a/scripts/rawinstall.sh
+++ b/scripts/rawinstall.sh
@@ -15,9 +15,14 @@ if [ "${1-}" = "--test" ] || [ "${1-}" = "-t" ]; then
 else
     echo "Looking for the latest release ..."
     # latest release
-    json=$(curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/curusarn/resh/releases/latest")
-    # not very robust but we don't want any dependencies to parse to JSON
-    tag=$(echo "$json" | grep '"tag_name":' | cut -d':' -f2 | tr -d ',' | cut -d'"' -f2)
+    if which jq >/dev/null; then
+        # Use `jq` if it exists on the system
+        tag=$(curl "https://api.github.com/repos/curusarn/resh/releases/latest" | jq .tag_name | tr -d '"' | tr -d "'")
+    else
+        json=$(curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/curusarn/resh/releases/latest")
+        # not very robust but we don't want any dependencies to parse to JSON
+        tag=$(echo "$json" | grep '"tag_name":' | cut -d':' -f2 | tr -d ',' | cut -d'"' -f2)
+    fi
 fi
 
 if [ ${#tag} -lt 2 ]; then