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+#!/bin/sh
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# Setting the script to fail if anything goes wrong
+set -e
+
+#This is a script to help with the release process
+
+
+error () {
+   echo ""
+   echo "$@"
+   echo ""
+   echo "Usage: ./download-release.sh repo-url version target"
+   echo ""
+   echo "example:"
+   echo "./download-release.sh https://repo1.maven.org/maven2 2.3.0 ./target"
+   echo ""
+   exit 64
+}
+
+doDownload () {
+
+  theFile="$1"
+  completeURL="$repoURL/$theFile"
+
+  echo $theFile
+
+  echo "Downloading $theFile from $completeURL"
+  curl $completeURL > $theFile
+
+  echo "Downloading $theFile.asc"
+  curl $completeURL.asc > $theFile.asc
+
+  echo "Downloading $theFile.md5"
+  curl $completeURL.md5 > $theFile.md5
+
+  echo "Downloading $theFile.sha1"
+  curl $completeURL.sha1 > $theFile.sha1
+}
+
+if [ "$#" != 3 ]; then
+  error "Cannot match arguments"
+fi
+
+release=$2
+
+if [ -d $3 ]; then
+  cd $3
+else
+  error "Directory $3 does not exist"
+fi
+
+repoURL="$1/org/apache/activemq/apache-artemis/$2"
+
+doDownload apache-artemis-$release-bin.tar.gz 
+doDownload apache-artemis-$release-bin.zip
+doDownload apache-artemis-$release-source-release.tar.gz
+doDownload apache-artemis-$release-source-release.zip
+