Bind a keypress to a shell command that uses the current file in visual studio code

Question

Is there a way to create a keybinding to execute a shell command on a file? something like:

{
    \"key\": \"ctrl+shift+e\",
    \"command\": \"run\",
    \"comm         


        

Answer 1

with Marks answer here I could resolve my case that was run an android command with some shortcut. After that I decided to create an guide on my GitHub, hope that helps.

GitHub: LucasMMota

Run Shell Script with Keyboard Shortcuts

In this example I set a keyboard shortcut to run android reload on my react native project.

• 1. Install the macros extension to execute multiple commands.
• 2. After installed go to Preferences>Settings (or cmd+,)
• 3. Find Macros Configuration and use to edit in User Settings, or simply add the following in your user settings:

  {

  //... other configs you could have
  
  "macros": {
      "runCommandInTerminal": [
          "editor.action.insertLineAfter", // go to new line below
          {
              "command": "type",
              "args": {
                  "text": "adb shell input text \"RR\" " // exec cmd to reload android device (could be any else)
              }
          },
          // select text typed above
          {
              "command": "cursorMove",
              "args": {
                  "to": "wrappedLineStart",
                  "by": "wrappedLine",
                  "value": 1,
                  "select": true
              }
          },
          "workbench.action.terminal.runSelectedText", //run command
          "editor.action.clipboardCutAction", // remove cmd typed
          //"editor.action.deleteLines", //couldn't use. When uncommented, command doesn't work
      ],
  }
  

  }

• 4. Now that we have the command set, we need to set a trigger shortcut. So go to Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts (or cmd+k), open keybindings.json and edit like this:

  {

  "key": "alt+s",

  "command":"macros.runCommandInTerminal"

  }

• 5. Save your User Settings customizations and keybindings.json, respectively

Bind file format and indenting with save shortcut

keybindings.json:

{
        "key": "cmd+s",
        "command": "macros.saveContentAndIndent",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly"
    },

User Settings:

"macros": {
        "saveContentAndIndent": [
            "editor.action.formatDocument", // format
            "workbench.action.files.save", // as I used Save shorcut, I add the save bind again.
        ],
        //....
}