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Automatically updates Visual Studio Code by downloading the latest version and replacing the currently installed version with it.
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update_vscode.sh
notify-send "Updating Visual Studio Code..."
# killing VS Code will give you a crash message and will reopen it
# it's also unsafe because you might lose unsaved data
# pkill code
# automatically gets the latest version of VS Code
wget "https://update.code.visualstudio.com/latest/linux-x64/stable"
# remove currently installed version of VS Code and replace it with the new downloaded one
rm -r VSCode-linux-x64
tar -xf "stable"
rm "stable"
notify-send "Updating Visual Studio Code to latest version has finished."
cd ./VSCode-linux-x64
./code &
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