Script to install/update HUGO on your macOS

A quick guide to installing and updating HUGO on macOS, ensuring you have the latest features and security updates.

Elvis Finol

4 de septiembre de 2021

English

1 mins

Frameworks

You can use this script to install/update HUGO (static site generator) on your macOS

Steps

Copy the script and save it on your machine as hugo_latest.sh

# Find the latest Hugo from GitHub
echo '🐹 Starting Hugo Install / Update 🐹'
echo '      Note: Please be sure to have curl and grep installed'
echo ''

url=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repositories/11180687/releases/latest" | grep -o 'https://.*hugo_extended.*_macOS-64bit.tar.gz')
echo '✅ Found latest version'

curl -s $url -L -o hugo_latest.tar.gz
echo '✅ Download complete: ' $url

tar -zxf hugo_latest.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin
rm /usr/local/bin/README.md
rm /usr/local/bin/LICENSE
echo '✅ Extracted to /usr/local/bin'

rm hugo_latest.tar.gz
echo '✅ Removed downloaded artifacts'

echo ''
echo '👉 Current Version' $(hugo version)

echo ''
echo '🎉🎉🎉 Happy Hugo-ing! 🎉🎉🎉'

Open the Terminal on you macOS, locate the file and run the script:

./hugo_latest.sh

Do not forget run “chmod” to give read permission

Wait until it finish, it may take a while. Validate the HUGO version running the following command:

hugo version
hugo v0.88.0-ACC5EB5B+extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate=2021-09-02T09:27:28Z VendorInfo=gohugoio