Automatically update Atom editor

atom-update.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Updates the Atom to the latest version
# http://askubuntu.com/questions/589469/how-to-automatically-update-atom-editor

wget -q https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/latest -O /tmp/latest
version=`cat /tmp/latest | grep -o -E 'href="([^"#]+)atom-amd64.deb"' | cut -d'"' -f2 | sort | uniq | cut -d"/" -f6`
echo "Latest version for atom is: $version"
echo "Downloading version $version"
curl -L 'https://github.com'$(cat /tmp/latest | grep -o -E 'href="([^"#]+)atom-amd64.deb"' | cut -d'"' -f2 | sort | uniq) -o /tmp/atom-amd64.deb -#
echo "Download Completed"
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/atom-amd64.deb