I'd like to run / open Visual Studio Code from the Mac OSX Terminal by running this command code .
. I found instructions here:
https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/setup
Apparently I need to include this in my .bashrc
file, so I did, but to no avail.
code () {
if [[ $# = 0 ]]
then
open -a "Visual Studio Code"
else
[[ $1 = /* ]] && F="$1" || F="$PWD/${1#./}"
open -a "Visual Studio Code" --args "$F"
fi
}
I edited the .bashrc
file here:
~/.bashrc
which points to /Users/username/.bashrc
Which .bashrc
should I be editing?
According to the docs on Launching from the command line:
Shell
in command paletteShell Command: Install code in PATH
from suggested listThat's it.
Now open your terminal type.
$ code .
Many Mac users find this is forgotten and needs to be re-applied after any restart. This may happen if MacOS has applied the quarantine attribute to VS Code, which the OS uses for the "Are you sure?" notice applied on first using apps downloaded from the internet.
To check if this attribute is applied, look for com.apple.quarantine
in the list returned by this command (changing the path if that's not where you installed it):
xattr "/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app"
If that does return com.apple.quarantine
, you can remove the attribute using the same command with the -d
flag (alongside -r
to recursively remove it from all contained files and sudo
to allow the change):
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app"
...then do Shell Command : Install code in PATH
as above after the attribute has been removed, and it should persist after restart.
Credit: derflounder.wordpress.com article linked to by RicardoVallejo in this comment.