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#!/bin/bash
DIR="$HOME/bin"
cd /tmp
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/cdr/code-server/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.\+linux-x86_64.tar.gz" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget --output-document=code-server.tar.gz -qi -
tar xvzf /tmp/code-server.tar.gz --strip=1 --overwrite --wildcards --no-anchored -C "$DIR" 'code-server'
chmod +x "$DIR/code-server"
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volb commented May 18, 2020

Hey, I've used this great script and want to thank you for it. I'm not sure but it looks like the name has changed again to "code-server-3.3.0-linux-amd64" for the tarball, from what I can tell.

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They also recently switched to distributing .debs instead which maybe a neater solution.

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