$ get-ipsw(){ curl -s -L http://phobos.apple.com/version | sed -rn "s|[\t ]*<string>(http://appldnld\.apple\.com\.edgesuite\.net/content\.info\.apple\.com/iPhone[0-9]?/[^/]*/$1$2_$3_[A-Z0-9a-z]*_Restore\.ipsw)</string>|\1|p" | uniq; }
Usage:
get-ipsw device-name generation-string firmware-version
For example:
get-ipsw iPod 2,1 4.0
Different generation strings:
iPhone 3G: iPhone 1,2
iPhone 3GS: iPhone 2,1
iPod touch 2G: iPod 2,1
iPod touch 3G: iPod 3,1
This can be used with idevicerestore (I haven't tried it though).
http://github.com/posixninja/idevicerestore
Based on:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-0-firmware-release-expected-momentarily-quick-terminal-ti/
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