2 # A quick and dirty script to fetch the latest stable minecraft_server.jar
4 VERSION_URL
="https://launchermeta.mojang.com/mc/game/version_manifest.json"
5 LATEST_VER
=$
(wget
-qO - "${VERSION_URL}" | jq
-r .latest.release
)
6 # Our CURRENT_VER is stored in current_ver and we don't need no stinking error messages
8 source current_ver
> /dev
/null
2>&1
10 # Check if we need a new minecraft_server.jar
11 if [ ! "${CURRENT_VER:-1}" = "${LATEST_VER}" ] ||
[ ! -f minecraft_server.jar
]; then
12 LATEST_MANIFEST
=$
(wget
-qO - "${VERSION_URL}" | jq
-r --arg VERSION_TARGET
"${LATEST_VER}" '.versions | .[] | select(.id==$VERSION_TARGET) | .url')
13 LATEST_SERVER_URL
=$
(wget
-qO - "${LATEST_MANIFEST}" | jq
-r .downloads.server.url
)
14 wget
-q "${LATEST_SERVER_URL}" -O minecraft_server.jar
&& echo "CURRENT_VER=${LATEST_VER}" > current_ver