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) ├── atom-dark-syntax@0.29.1 ├── atom-dark-ui@0.53.3 ├── atom-light-syntax@0.29.1 ├── atom-light-ui@0.46.3 ├── base16-tomorrow-dark-theme@1.6.0 ├── base16-tomorrow-light-theme@1.6.0 ├── one-dark-ui@1.12.5 . . . ├── language-xml@0.35.3 └── language-yaml@0.32.0 Community Packages (10) ~/.atom/packages ├── 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 The output is vast since it includes all the built-in packages plus theinstalled ones. Let’s filter only the installed:
$ apm list --installed Community Packages (10) ~/.atom/packages ├── 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 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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