“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

For those of you that run ZShell with Iterm2, add this to your ~/.zshrc file.

alias code="/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code"

Answer 2

1. Make sure you drag Visual Studio Code app into the -Applications- folder

Otherwise (as noted in the comments) you'll have to go through this process again after reboot

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2. Next, open Visual Studio Code

Open the Command Palette via (⇧⌘P) and type shell command to find the Shell Command:

> Install 'code' command in PATH** command.

After executing the command, restart the terminal for the new $PATH value to take effect. You'll be able to simply type 'code .' in any folder to start editing files in that folder. The "." Simply means "current directory"

(Source: VS Code documentation)

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NOTE: If you're running a build based off the OSS repository... You will need to run code-oss . @Dzeimsas Zvirblis

Answer 3

Define the path of the Visual Studio in your ~/.bash_profile as follow

export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin"

Answer 4

For code . to work in OSX terminal append code as described here https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/setup but instead of to .bashrc, in OSX try .profile which is loaded at terminal session start.

Answer 5

https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/setup

Tip: If you want to run VSCode from the terminal, append the following to your .bashrc file

code () {
if [[ $# = 0 ]]
then
    open -a "Visual Studio Code"
else
    [[ $1 = /* ]] && F="$1" || F="$PWD/${1#./}"
    open -a "Visual Studio Code" --args "$F"
fi
}

Then $ source ~/.bashrc

Answer 6

EDIT: If this is happening on mint/ubuntu, it is likely because you installed vscode through the software manager. This will cause other problems during debugging. Instead install it using the .deb file on the vscode website.

If you really want to use the software manager, the solution below still works:

use find / -name code 2> /dev/null to find the path to the visual studio bin file. It should end in /extra/vscode/bin/code

If you're using the mint software manager, you might only find paths with a ridiculously long name in the middle like this:

".../stable/7a22830d9e8fbbdc9627e43e072005eef66c14d2a4dd19992427ef4de060186a/..."

Just replace the long part with "/active/"

Once you have it, create a sym link:

ln -s path_you_found/extra/vscode/bin/code /usr/local/bin/code

If you don't have the rights, or only want it to be accessible for yourself, simply add this line to your .bashrc / .zshrc:

export PATH="$PATH:path_you_found/extra/vscode/bin/

Note that I removed the 'code' filename at the end