Visual Studio Code - Insiders -- Download and Update scripts for Debian

code-insiders.desktop

# Copyright (c) 2019 Maxwell Bloch, MIT license
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Code - Insiders
Version=1.1
GenericName=IDE
Icon=code-insiders
Exec=/usr/bin/code-insiders %F
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=Code - Insiders
Keywords=code;ide;visual studio;
Categories=Development;IDE;WebDevelopment;TextEditor;
MimeType=text/plain;text/*;text/css;text/html;text/javascript;text/csv;text/ecmascript;text/markdown;text/sgml;text/xml;text/x-csharp;text/json;application/json;application/xml;application;application/node;application/xml-dtd;application/xml-external-parsed-entity;application/xml-patch+xml;application/sql;application/soap+xml;application/jwt;application/jwk+json;application/jwk-set+json;application/javascript;application/json-seq;application/typescript
#https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/command-line#_opening-files-and-folders
Actions=Diff;Open-Reuse-Window;

[Desktop Action Diff]
Exec=/usr/bin/code-insiders --diff %F
Name=Diff Two Files

[Desktop Action Open-Reuse-Window]
Exec=/usr/bin/code-insiders --reuse-window %F
Name=Open in Existing Window

update.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (c) 2019 Maxwell Bloch, GPLv2+ License

get_latest() {
    update="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=723968"
    latest=$(curl -sIL ${update} | grep -i '^Location: ' | tail -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -dc "[:print:]")
    outpath=$(dirname $(readlink -f ${0}))/$(basename ${latest} | cut -d. -f1)
    extension=$(basename ${latest} | awk 'BEGIN { FS="." } { print $(NF) }')
    
    mkdir -vp ${outpath}
    echo GET ${latest}
    echo $(curl -s ${latest} | tar -C ${outpath} -zxv --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 | wc -l) files extracted to ${outpath}
}

add_link() {
    latest=$(find $(dirname $(readlink -f ${0})) | grep 'bin/code-insiders$' | sort -rV | head -n 1)
    latest=$(readlink -f $(dirname ${latest})/..)
    desktopfile=$(dirname $(readlink -f ${0}))/code-insiders.desktop
    
    if [ -f ${desktopfile} ]; then
        ln -sfv ${desktopfile} /usr/share/applications/code-insiders.desktop
    fi
    
    update-alternatives --install \
        /usr/bin/code-insiders code-insiders \
        ${latest}/bin/code-insiders 50 \
        --slave \
        /etc/bash_completion.d/code-insiders code-insiders-completion \
        ${latest}/resources/completions/bash/code-insiders \
        --slave \
        /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/code-insiders.png code-insiders_48x48.png \
        ${latest}/resources/app/resources/linux/code.png \
        --slave \
        /usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/code-insiders.png code-insiders_512x512.png \
        ${latest}/resources/app/resources/linux/code.png \
        --slave \
        /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/code-insiders.png code-insiders_64x64.png \
        ${latest}/resources/app/resources/linux/code.png \
        --slave \
        /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/code-insiders.png code-insiders_128x128.png \
        ${latest}/resources/app/resources/linux/code.png
}

get_latest
add_link