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Automatically updates Discord by downloading the latest version and replacing the currently installed version with it.
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update_discord.sh
notify-send "Updating Discord..."
# terminate Discord if it's currently running
pkill Discord*
wget "https://discordapp.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=tar.gz"
# remove currently installed version of Discord and replace it with the new downloaded one
rm -r Discord
tar -xf "download?platform=linux&format=tar.gz"
rm "download?platform=linux&format=tar.gz"
notify-send "Updating Discord to latest version has finished."
# make Discord exectuable and run it
cd ./Discord;
chmod +x Discord
./Discord
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