Every time I have to set up a new computer, I have to remember the Atompackages that I was using before and start installing them one by one.
Recently, I discovered that Atom comes with the Atom Package Manager or apmthat allows you to install Atom Packages from the terminal:
$ apm install asciidoc-preview
But the same tool also allows us to list the currently installed packages:
$ apm list
Built-in Atom Packages (93)
โโโ atom-dark-syntax@0.29.1
โโโ atom-dark-ui@0.53.3
โโโ atom-light-syntax@0.29.1
โโโ atom-light-ui@0.46.3
โโโ base16-tomorrow-dark-theme@1.6.0
โโโ base16-tomorrow-light-theme@1.6.0
โโโ one-dark-ui@1.12.5
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โโโ language-xml@0.35.3
โโโ language-yaml@0.32.0
Community Packages (10) ~/.atom/packages
โโโ asciidoc-assistant@0.2.3
โโโ asciidoc-image-helper@1.0.1
โโโ asciidoc-preview@2.13.1
โโโ atom-beautify@0.33.4
โโโ atom-runner@2.7.1
โโโ autocomplete-asciidoc@0.1.2
โโโ intellij-idea-keymap@0.2.3
โโโ jekyll@2.1.0
โโโ language-asciidoc@1.11.0
โโโ platformio-ide-terminal@2.10.0
The output is vast since it includes all the built-in packages plus theinstalled ones. Letโs filter only the installed:
$ apm list --installed
Community Packages (10) ~/.atom/packages
โโโ asciidoc-assistant@0.2.3
โโโ asciidoc-image-helper@1.0.1
โโโ asciidoc-preview@2.13.1
โโโ atom-beautify@0.33.4
โโโ atom-runner@2.7.1
โโโ autocomplete-asciidoc@0.1.2
โโโ intellij-idea-keymap@0.2.3
โโโ jekyll@2.1.0
โโโ language-asciidoc@1.11.0
โโโ platformio-ide-terminal@2.10.0
A lot better, but we will also need to remove the noise from the output:
$ apm list --installed --bare
asciidoc-assistant@0.2.3
asciidoc-image-helper@1.0.1
asciidoc-preview@2.13.1
atom-beautify@0.33.4
atom-runner@2.7.1
autocomplete-asciidoc@0.1.2
intellij-idea-keymap@0.2.3
jekyll@2.1.0
language-asciidoc@1.11.0
platformio-ide-terminal@2.10.0
If we want to remove the specific versions to tell apm that we want the latestversions instead, we can filter the output with grep:
$ apm list --installed --bare | grep '^[^@]\+' -o
asciidoc-assistant
asciidoc-image-helper
asciidoc-preview
atom-beautify
atom-runner
autocomplete-asciidoc
intellij-idea-keymap
jekyll
language-asciidoc
platformio-ide-terminal
Now that we have a clean list of our installed packages, we can store it in atext file:
$ apm list --installed --bare | grep '^[^@]\+' -o > atom-packages.txt
We can store this file in dotfiles, Github, Gists, Gitlab, Dropbox, or evenemail and then run the following command to install all the packages i.e., fornew installations:
$ apm install --packages-file atom-packages.txt
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