Auto update upgrade your Atom editor Package

So, atom is one of my favorite text editor these days, and it has great community. You can download and read it more about the atom here: https://atom.io/

Unfortunately, it is difficult to update the atom, as it is not available in ubuntu software center, and there is no update option available for the atom yet.

So, i have found a script over askubuntu.com and it's very useful. You can use it for downloading, updating, and upgrading your atom package. You can add the same in your cron job.

Here is the code, save it as atom-auto-update.sh
and make it executable.

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#This script is copied from askubuntu.com
	#http://askubuntu.com/questions/589469/how-to-automatically-update-atom-editor
	#purpose of the script is to update the atom package for ubuntu
	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

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Save it and run it. And feel the power of new upgraded atom.

Thank you.