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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're taking a manual approach I would use a symlink:

$ ln -s /path/to/stuff/Bitwarden.1.0.7.appimage /path/to/stuff/Bitwarden.appimage

Then you can hang on to a previous version just in case, plus you can see from the original filename what version you're on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Happy to hear if there are glaring problems with this approach, but if you can assume files named with version numbers, you can use a script to always launch the newest...

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x $(ls | grep Appname.*AppImage$ | sort -rV | head -n 1)
./$(ls | grep Appname.*AppImage$ | sort -rV | head -n 1)

Or you could change the script to sort by file modified date and launch the newest.

edit: Discovered an issue with version numbering like .10 and learned about the sort -V switch that fixes it!