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A script to automatically install the latest Atom editor on Linux via deb package.
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update-atom.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# From http://askubuntu.com/questions/589469/how-to-automatically-update-atom-editor
wget https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/latest -O ~/Downloads/latest
wget $(awk -F '[<>]' '/href=".*atom-amd64.deb/ {match($0,"href=\"(.*.deb)\"",a); print "https://github.com/" a[1]} ' ~/Downloads/latest) -O ~/Downloads/atom-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/atom-amd64.deb
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