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#!/bin/bash
DIR="$HOME/bin"
cd /tmp
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/cdr/code-server/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.\+linux-x86_64.tar.gz" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget --output-document=code-server.tar.gz -qi -
tar xvzf /tmp/code-server.tar.gz --strip=1 --overwrite --wildcards --no-anchored -C "$DIR" 'code-server'
chmod +x "$DIR/code-server"
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They also recently switched to distributing .debs instead which maybe a neater solution.

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