Installer for Visual Studio Code for Linux (Ubuntu)

vscodeinstaller.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Taken and modified from
# http://www.thepowerbase.com/2015/04/install-visual-studio-code-ubuntu-14-04-14-10-15-04/

DOWNLOAD_URL=https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/public/0.10.2/VSCode-linux64.zip
VSCODE_DIR=/opt/VSCode
DESKTOP_FILE_PATH=/usr/share/applications/visualstudiocode.desktop
ICON_FILE_PATH=$VSCODE_DIR/resources/app/resources/linux/vscode.png
TMP_DIR=/tmp/VSCode
TMP_FILE=$TMP_DIR/VSCode-linux-x64.zip


function  desktop_file {
    cat <<-EOT > "$DESKTOP_FILE_PATH"
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Visual Studio Code
Comment=Multi-platform code editor for Linux
Exec=$VSCODE_DIR/Code
Icon=$ICON_FILE_PATH
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=TextEditor;Development;Utility;
MimeType=text/plain;
EOT
}

function install {
    mkdir "$TMP_DIR"

    # Get the app and put it someplace.
    wget -O "$TMP_FILE" "$DOWNLOAD_URL"

    # Extract to install dir
    unzip "$TMP_FILE" -d "$VSCODE_DIR/"

    # hack to remove any unnecessary sub directory
    if [ $(ls $VSCODE_DIR | wc -l) == 1 ]; then
        subdir=$(ls "$VSCODE_DIR")
        mv "$VSCODE_DIR/$subdir/"* "$VSCODE_DIR/"
        rmdir "$VSCODE_DIR/$subdir"
    fi

    # create the desktop file
    desktop_file

    # clean up
    rm -r $TMP_DIR
}

function uninstall {
    rm -rv "$VSCODE_DIR"
    rm -v "$DESKTOP_FILE_PATH"
}

if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
    uninstall
else
    install
fi

exit 0