You have followed our posts on how to install skipfish on your Ubuntu/Debian based machine, and read our testing with Mutillidae. With the rapid speed of skipfish releases however, your local copy may start to smell. Now you can automate the delivery of fresh fish to your doorstep. Copy the code below to update_skippy.sh in your skipfish directory, run chmod +x update_skippy.sh and then ./update_skippy.sh to ensure your security tool-bowl is kept well stocked.

#!/bin/bash
# Checks local version of skipfish and update if newer version exists
# Copyright (C) 2010 Paul Haas <phaas AT redspin DOT com>
# Licensed under the GNU Public License version 3.0 or greater

SKIP='https://code.google.com/p/skipfish/downloads/list'
TGZ='"[^"]*.tgz"'
LOCAL=$(head -n1 ChangeLog | grep -o '[0-9.]*')
REMOTE=$(wget -q "$SKIP" -O- | grep -e "version" | cut -d' ' -f4)
#REMOTE=$(curl -s "$SKIP" | grep -e "version" | cut -d' ' -f4) # Curl optional
LM=${LOCAL%.[0-9]*}
Lm=${LOCAL#[0-9]*.}
RM=${REMOTE%.[0-9]*}
Rm=${REMOTE#[0-9]*.}

if [[ "$LM" -lt "$RM" || "$LM" -eq "$RM" && "$Lm" -lt "$Rm" ]]
then
	echo "Updating Skipfish from $LOCAL to $REMOTE."
	wget -q "$SKIP" -O- | grep -o "$TGZ" | tr -d \" | wget -q -i- -O- | tar zxf - --strip=1
	#curl -s "$SKIP" | grep -o "$TGZ" | tr -d \" | xargs curl -s | tar zxf - --strip=1
	make clean
	make
else
	echo "Skipfish $LOCAL ($REMOTE) is up to date."
fi