How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list

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I need to send all my installed extensions to my colleagues  How can I export them   The extension manager seems to do nothing    It won t install any extension

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code --list-extensions  gt  list  sed -i  s      quot  amp   quot     list  Copy contents of file list and add to file  vscode extensions json in the  quot recommendations quot   section   If extensions json doesn t exist then create a file with the following contents        quot recommendations quot                Add content of file list here           Share the extensions json file and ask another user to add to the  vscode folder  Visual Studio Code will prompt for installation of extensions

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Export extensions  Bash   code --list-extensions   xargs -L 1 echo code --install-extension   sed  s    --force     sed    s      amp   amp     gt  install-extensions sh  With bash alias  alias eve  quot code --list-extensions   xargs -L 1 echo code --install-extension   sed  s    --force     sed     s      amp   amp     gt  install-extensions sh quot   Just run eve  Install extensions  Bash   sh install-extensions sh

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Under windows typically I need to run cd C  Program Files Microsoft VS Code bin code cmd --list-extensions  What you don t do is run the code exe directly under C  Program Files Microsoft VS Code

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I ve needed to do this myself a few times - especially when installing on another machine   Common questions will give you the location of your folder     Visual Studio Code looks for extensions under your extensions folder  vscode extensions  Depending on your platform it is located    Windows  USERPROFILE   vscode extensions Mac    vscode extensions Linux    vscode extensions   That should show you a list of the extensions   I ve also had success using Visual Studio Code Settings Sync Extension to sync settings to GitHub gist   In the latest release of Visual Studio Code  May 2016   it is now possible to list the installed extensions on the command line   code --list-extensions

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Benny s answer on Windows with the Linux subsystem  code --list-extensions   wsl xargs -L 1 echo code --install-extension

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There is an Extension Manager extension  that may help  It seems to allow to install a set of extensions specified in the settings json

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I have developed an extension which will synchronise your all Visual Studio Code settings across multiple instances  Key Features  Use your GitHub account token  Easy to upload and download on one click  Saves all settings and snippets files  Upload key  Shift   Alt   U Download key  Shift   Alt   D Type Sync In Order to View all sync options  It synchronises the  Settings file Keybinding file Launch file Snippets folder Visual Studio Code extensions  Detail Documentation Source Visual Studio Code Sync ReadMe Download here  Visual Studio Code Settings Sync

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How to export your Visual Studio Code extensions from the terminal  Here is git for that  Maybe this helps somebody  How to export your Visual Studio Code extensions from the terminal Note  Unix-like systems only   Export your extensions to a shell file   code --list-extensions   sed -e  s   code --install-extension     gt  my vscode extensions sh   Verify your extensions installer file   less my vscode extesions sh  Install your extensions  optional  Run your my vscode extensions sh using a Bash command  bash my vscode extensions sh

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I opened the Visual Studio Code extensions folder and executed   find   -maxdepth 2 -name  package json    xargs grep  name    That gives you a list from which you can extract the extension names

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I used the following command to copy my extensions from Visual Studio Code to Visual Studio Code insiders  code --list-extensions   xargs -L 1 code-insiders --install-extension  The argument -L 1 allows us to execute the command code-insiders --install-extension once for each input line generated by code --list-extensions

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Generate a Windows command file  batch  for installing extensions  for  F  quot tokens   quot   i in   code --list-extensions      do  echo call code --install-extension  i  gt  gt  install cmd

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Open the Visual Studio Code console and write  code --list-extensions  or code-insiders --list-extensions if Visual Studio Code insider is installed  Then share the command line with colleagues  code --install-extension  ext1  --install-extension  ext2  --install-extension  extN  replacing  ext1    ext2          extN  with the extension you listed For Visual Studio Code insider  code-insiders --install-extension  ext1      If they copy paste it in Visual Studio Code command-line terminal  they ll install the shared extensions  More information on command-line-extension-management

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Dump extensions  code --list-extensions  gt  extensions txt  Install extensions with Bash  Linux  OS  X and WSL   cat extensions txt   xargs code --list-extensions     Install extensions on Windows with PowerShell  cat extensions txt      code --install-extension

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For Linux On the old machine  code --list-extensions  gt  vscode-extensions list  On the new machine  cat vscode-extensions list   xargs -L 1 code --install-extension

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Windows  PowerShell  version of Benny s answer Machine A  In the Visual Studio Code PowerShell terminal  code --list-extensions  gt  extensions list Machine B   Copy extension list to the machine B  In the Visual Studio Code PowerShell terminal   cat extensions list      code --install-extension

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If you intend to share workspace extensions configuration across a team  you should look into the Recommended Extensions feature of Visual Studio Code  To generate this file  open the command pallet  gt  Configure Recommended Extensions  Workspace Folder   From there  if you wanted to get all of your current extensions and put them in here  you could use the --list-extensions stuff mentioned in other answers  but add some AWK script to make it paste-able into a JSON array  you can get more or less advanced with this as you please - this is just a quick example   code --list-extensions   awk    print  quot   quot  quot  0 quot   quot    quot    The advantage of this method is that your team-wide workspace configuration can be checked into source control  With this file present in a project  when the project is opened Visual Studio Code will notify the user that there are recommended extensions to install  if they don t already have them  and can install them all with a single button press

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For those that are wondering how to copy your extensions from Visual Studio Code to Visual Studio Code insiders  use this modification of Benny s answer  code --list-extensions   xargs -L 1 echo code-insiders --install-extension

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Automatic  If you are looking forward to an easy one-stop tool to do it for you  I would suggest you to look into the Settings Sync extension   It will allow   Export of your configuration and extensions Share it with coworkers and teams  You can update the configuration  Their settings will auto updated    Manual   Make sure you have the most current version of Visual Studio Code  If you install via a company portal  you might not have the most current version  On machine A  Unix   code --list-extensions   xargs -L 1 echo code --install-extension   Windows  PowerShell  e  g  using Visual Studio Code s integrated Terminal    code --list-extensions        code --install-extension        Copy and paste the echo output to machine B  Sample output  code --install-extension Angular ng-template code --install-extension DSKWRK vscode-generate-getter-setter code --install-extension EditorConfig EditorConfig code --install-extension HookyQR beautify    Please make sure you have the code command line installed  For more information  please visit Command Line Interface  CLI

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https   code visualstudio com docs editor extension-gallery  workspace-recommended-extensions  A better way to share extension list is to create workspace-based extension set for your colleagues  After generating a list of extensions via code --list-extensions   xargs -L 1 echo code --install-extension  check your  PATH contains Visual Studio Code entry C  Program Files Microsoft VS Code bin  before running code commands   run Extensions  Configure Recommended Extensions  Workspace Folder  Visual Studio Code command  Ctrl   Shift   P  and put extensions into the generated  vscode extensions json file         quot recommendations quot              quot eg2 tslint quot            quot dbaeumer vscode-eslint quot            quot msjsdiag debugger-for-chrome quot

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For Linux Mac only  export the installed Visual Studio Code extensions in the form of an installation script  It s a Z shell  Zsh  script  but it may run in Bash as well  https   gist github com jvlad 6c92178bbfd1906b7d83c69780ee4630

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If you would like to transfer all the extensions from code to code-insiders or vice versa  here is what worked for me from Git Bash  code --list-extensions   xargs -L 1 code-insiders --install-extension  This will install all the missing extensions and skip the installed ones  After that  you will need to close and reopen Visual Studio Code  Similarly  you can transfer extensions from code-insiders to code with the following  code-insiders --list-extensions   xargs -L 1 code --install-extension

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