Load the file (make sure you use the raw file, otherwise you load the HTML page!) with wget
using its exact URL and then pipe the output to bash
:
Here's an example with clarifications:
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<username>/<project>/<branch>/<path>/<file> | bash
From the manpage for the wget
command:
-O file
--output-document=file
The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but all
will be concatenated together and written to file. If - is used as
file, documents will be printed to standard output, disabling link
conversion. (Use ./- to print to a file literally named -.)
Use of -O is not intended to mean simply "use the name file instead
of the one in the URL;" rather, it is analogous to shell
redirection: wget -O file http://foo is intended to work like wget
-O - http://foo > file; file will be truncated immediately, and all
downloaded content will be written there.
So outputting to -
will actually write the files content to STDOUT and then you simply pipe it to bash
or whatever shell you prefer. If you script needs sudo
rights you need to do sudo bash
at the end so the line becomes:
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<username>/<project>/<branch>/<path>/<file> | sudo bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
as your hash-bang for better portability.