“code .” Not working in Command Line for Visual Studio Code on OSX/Mac

Question

The command \"code .\" doesn\'t work in this manual?

All the other steps before that worked. How can I call the Visual Studio Code in OSX terminal?

Answer 1

It was quite simple to follow the documentation to install 'code' to PATH but didn't work.

I simply uninstalled it first, then installed it again.

Open the Command Palette (⇧⌘P)

Shell Command: Uninstall 'code' command in PATH command.

then install it again.

Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH command.

Don't forget to restart your terminal to have the new PATH included.

Answer 2

Open the ~/.bashrc file using vi/vim $ vi ~/.bashrc

Enter the following by pressing i to insert:

code () { VSCODE_CWD="$PWD" open -n -b "com.microsoft.VSCode" --args $* ;}

Save the file using :wq

Reflect the settings in ~/.bashrc using the following command:

source ~/.bashrc

Answer 3

Steps to follow:-

1. Open Visual Studio code application & type Command+Shift+P and type command 'install code'. Then enter it.
2. You will see below message in Visual Studio Application :- shell command ' code' successfully installed in PATH.
3. Now, Jump to iTerm CLI and type code .
4. Then you will be able to redirect to Visual studio for any code change/view.

Hope this steps will be helpful for you.

Answer 4

I've tried install add code command to PATH with Visual Studio Code's command pannel, but it's disabled after restart bash. if you want it be consolidated, just create a code file in your PATH; I create a code file in usr/local/bin and add

#!/usr/bin/env bash
function realpath() { python -c "import os,sys;print(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[1]))" "$0"; }
CONTENTS="/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents"
ELECTRON="$CONTENTS/MacOS/Electron"
CLI="$CONTENTS/Resources/app/out/cli.js"
ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 "$ELECTRON" "$CLI" "$@"
exit $?

just replace this CONTENTS with your VS Code's installed path. and don't forget make it excuteable with chmod +x /usr/local/bin/code

Answer 5

If you are using VS Code Insiders Build:

code-insiders .

With regular VS Code:

code .

Answer 6

had this problem in kali. deleted go and reinstalled and now it works perfectly.

:)