diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/update.sh b/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/update-vscode.sh
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
similarity index 55%
rename from pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/update.sh
rename to pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/update-vscode.sh
index c030e38a70a0..5066a8e41823
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/update.sh
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/update-vscode.sh
@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ if [ ! -f "$ROOT/vscode.nix" ]; then
   echo "ERROR: cannot find vscode.nix in $ROOT"
   exit 1
 fi
-if [ ! -f "$ROOT/vscodium.nix" ]; then
-  echo "ERROR: cannot find vscodium.nix in $ROOT"
-  exit 1
-fi
 
 # VSCode
 
@@ -26,16 +22,3 @@ sed -i "s/x86_64-linux = \".\{52\}\"/x86_64-linux = \"${VSCODE_LINUX_SHA256}\"/"
 VSCODE_DARWIN_URL="https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/${VSCODE_VER}/darwin/stable"
 VSCODE_DARWIN_SHA256=$(nix-prefetch-url ${VSCODE_DARWIN_URL})
 sed -i "s/x86_64-darwin = \".\{52\}\"/x86_64-darwin = \"${VSCODE_DARWIN_SHA256}\"/" "$ROOT/vscode.nix"
-
-# VSCodium
-
-VSCODIUM_VER=$(curl -Ls -w %{url_effective} -o /dev/null https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/latest | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}')
-sed -i "s/version = \".*\"/version = \"${VSCODIUM_VER}\"/" "$ROOT/vscodium.nix"
-
-VSCODIUM_LINUX_URL="https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/${VSCODIUM_VER}/VSCodium-linux-x64-${VSCODIUM_VER}.tar.gz"
-VSCODIUM_LINUX_SHA256=$(nix-prefetch-url ${VSCODIUM_LINUX_URL})
-sed -i "s/x86_64-linux = \".\{52\}\"/x86_64-linux = \"${VSCODIUM_LINUX_SHA256}\"/" "$ROOT/vscodium.nix"
-
-VSCODIUM_DARWIN_URL="https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/${VSCODIUM_VER}/VSCodium-darwin-${VSCODIUM_VER}.zip"
-VSCODIUM_DARWIN_SHA256=$(nix-prefetch-url ${VSCODIUM_DARWIN_URL})
-sed -i "s/x86_64-darwin = \".\{52\}\"/x86_64-darwin = \"${VSCODIUM_DARWIN_SHA256}\"/" "$ROOT/vscodium.nix"
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/update-vscodium.sh b/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/update-vscodium.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..0e8ce6da5a02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/update-vscodium.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell -i bash -p curl gnugrep gnused gawk
+
+set -eou pipefail
+
+ROOT="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
+if [ ! -f "$ROOT/vscodium.nix" ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: cannot find vscodium.nix in $ROOT"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# VSCodium
+
+VSCODIUM_VER=$(curl -Ls -w %{url_effective} -o /dev/null https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/latest | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}')
+sed -i "s/version = \".*\"/version = \"${VSCODIUM_VER}\"/" "$ROOT/vscodium.nix"
+
+VSCODIUM_LINUX_URL="https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/${VSCODIUM_VER}/VSCodium-linux-x64-${VSCODIUM_VER}.tar.gz"
+VSCODIUM_LINUX_SHA256=$(nix-prefetch-url ${VSCODIUM_LINUX_URL})
+sed -i "s/x86_64-linux = \".\{52\}\"/x86_64-linux = \"${VSCODIUM_LINUX_SHA256}\"/" "$ROOT/vscodium.nix"
+
+VSCODIUM_DARWIN_URL="https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/${VSCODIUM_VER}/VSCodium-darwin-${VSCODIUM_VER}.zip"
+VSCODIUM_DARWIN_SHA256=$(nix-prefetch-url ${VSCODIUM_DARWIN_URL})
+sed -i "s/x86_64-darwin = \".\{52\}\"/x86_64-darwin = \"${VSCODIUM_DARWIN_SHA256}\"/" "$ROOT/vscodium.nix"