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Automatically update WebKit via script and launchd
Authored by: daaku on Mon, Aug 4 2008 at 5:56PM PDT

A simpler script:

#!/bin/sh

tmpdir=/tmp/webkit-nightly
URL=$(curl http://nightly.webkit.org/ | grep dmg | head -1 | perl -pe 's/.*(http.*dmg).*/$1/')
FILE=$(basename $URL)
mkdir -p $tmpdir &&
cd $tmpdir &&
curl $URL --remote-name &&
hdiutil attach -quiet $tmpdir/$FILE &&
mv /Applications/WebKit.app ~/.Trash/WebKit-`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%s`.app/ &&
cp -R /Volumes/WebKit/WebKit.app /Applications/ &&
hdiutil detach -quiet /Volumes/WebKit &&
echo Installed $FILE